Rattan display shelf in modern style

This rattan display shelf was part of a set of furnishings designed for the living and dining room of the modernist house at 5 Camborne Rd. The home was a commission from the architect Ng Keng Siang by Lee Wah Bank for the family of its General Manager Kwok Chan-Kwan and his wife Tong Swee Ying. The display shelf was made in a Chinese rattan shop on Victoria St, the site for many immigrant furniture makers particularly during the peak of the rattan industry in Singapore in the 1960s and 1970s. To make the form of this display shelf, straight pieces of cane would have to be boiled and bent into a circle. Its design demonstrates the clean lines that defined modern interior design.

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