- Product:
- Chest
- Manufacturer:
- Christie`s
- Architonic ID:
- 4102529
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Category:
- Furnishings
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Key facts
Product description
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)
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)