Prix estimatif: 15.000-20.000 GBP
Prix réalisé : 17.925 GBP
Enchères:
Designed by Architects
Date de vente: 2003-10-08
Lieu des enchères:
London
Numéro du lot: 87
Design
Josef Frank
Fabricant
Svenskt Tenn
Numéro ID d'Architonic
4102529
Designed circa 1949, retailed by Svenskt Tenn, Stockholm, mahogany, printed paper.
30in. (76cm.) height; 511⁄2in. (131cm.) width; 17in. (43cm.) depth
Austrian architect and designer Frank was a leading figure in Central-European Modernism, participating in the Weissenhofsiedlung housing exhibition, Stuttgart, 1927 (lots 47, 51), before being forced to emigrate to Stockholm in 1933.
Lit.: Nina Stretzler-Levine, Josef Frank, Architect and Designer, an Alternative Vision of the Modern Home, New York, 1996, p.272, no.122a (the model illustrated)