# Mart Stam artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/mart-stam/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:41:02.030Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Furniture design, Architectural and urban design

## Portrait

![Mart Stam](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Mart_Stam_1920.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mart_Stam_1920.jpg

## About Mart Stam

Mart Stam (1899–1986), born Martinus Adrianus Stam, was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer. Authority records from VIAF, IdRef, and Wikidata agree on his identity, life years, national context, and professional roles, while the Museum of Modern Art maintains a dedicated artist record. Stam is therefore best understood across architecture and collectible design rather than only through a conventional fine-art category. Biographical material in the collected pack places his career within major twentieth-century European architecture and design networks, although the available authority excerpts do not independently establish every episode of that career. In appraisal and auction contexts, collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with furniture design, particularly seating and the history of the cantilever chair. His identity may appear as Mart Stam, Martin Stam, or Martinus Adrianus Stam, making alias matching important when reviewing catalogues and sale records. Object attribution, however, should remain separate from biographical identification.

## Common works and media

Furniture is the principal collectible work type supported by the collected sources. Auction and appraisal searches may especially encounter seating or objects connected with Stam’s role in cantilever-chair design. Architectural plans, publications, and documentary material may also carry his name, but the source pack does not establish their frequency in the auction market. It provides no support for treating paintings, prints, sculpture, or ceramics as characteristic Stam categories.

## Market and appraisal context

Mart Stam’s auction footprint should be read primarily as a design market rather than as a conventional fine-art price series. The collected sources identify him as an architect and furniture designer and associate his name with cantilever-chair development. A useful appraisal comparison must begin by confirming that the object is presented as a Stam design and then matching it with records for the same kind of object. This research pack does not contain lot-level descriptions, production dates, manufacturer details, condition reports, provenance, estimates, or realized prices, so it cannot support a price forecast or rank individual valuation factors. Any valuation conclusion should be based on the specific object and closely comparable public auction records.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708333
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/72195519/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/070162395
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/38737
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500013891
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart_Stam
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart_Stam
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mart-stam/