Estimated value: 4000-5000 GBP
Reached Price : 4182 GBP
Auction:
Designed by Architects
Sales date: 2003-10-08
Location:
London
Lot number: 16
Design
Maria Schwartzberg
Manufacturer
G.A. Sohlberg
Architonic id
4102543
Designed 1905, manufactured by G.A. Sohlberg, copper, with suspended bead curtain.
223⁄4in. (58cm.) height; 20in. (51cm.) width
Schwartzberg studied applied arts in Helsinki and Stockholm. Primarily a textile designer, she worked with the Suomen Käsityün Ystävät studios, becoming its artistic director in 1917.
An example of this design was exhibited Jugend, Designmuseo, Helsinki, 9 May - 21 September 2003
Lit: Ingeborg Becker & Sigrid Melchior (eds.), Now the Light Comes from the North, Art Nouveau in Finland, Berlin, 2003, (discussion of the Finnish Arts & Crafts Art Nouveau movement)