Coffee table | Wright
Estimated value: 5000-7000 US$
Auction:
Modern Design
Sales date: 2005-03-20
Location:
Chicago
Lot number: 468
Design
Josef Frank
Manufacturer Svenskt Tenn
Architonic id 4106686
Manufacturer Svenskt Tenn
Architonic id 4106686
Bird's-eye maple
48.5"dia x 19.5"h
Josef Frank was an Austrian born designer who worked in Sweden with Svenskt Tenn starting in the early 1930s. The furniture he designed with Svenskt Tenn straddled the traditional Swedish aesthetics of harmony, purity, and simplicity and the utilitarian and rational side of Modernism. Branded signature and manufacturer's mark to bottom.
Literature:
Josef Frank, Long, pg. 100, fig. 93 shows smaller similar example in situ
48.5"dia x 19.5"h
Josef Frank was an Austrian born designer who worked in Sweden with Svenskt Tenn starting in the early 1930s. The furniture he designed with Svenskt Tenn straddled the traditional Swedish aesthetics of harmony, purity, and simplicity and the utilitarian and rational side of Modernism. Branded signature and manufacturer's mark to bottom.
Literature:
Josef Frank, Long, pg. 100, fig. 93 shows smaller similar example in situ
