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AB Elsa Gullberg, a Swedish Modern easy chair, 1930's-40's.

Estimate
20 000 - 25 000 SEK
1 780 - 2 220 EUR
1 850 - 2 320 USD
Hammer price
28 000 SEK
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Jonatan  Jahn
Stockholm
Jonatan Jahn
Head Specialist Contemporary and Modern Design
+46 (0)703 92 88 60
AB Elsa Gullberg, a Swedish Modern easy chair, 1930's-40's.

Upholstered in a greyish textile, legs in elm, height 81 cm.

Renovated and reupholstered.

Exhibitions

The model was exhibited at Liljevalchs, Stockholm 1936, The Paris World's Fair in 1937 and at Vi Bo in Ribbershus, 1938.
Elsa Gullberg also used this model in the interior of Hindås Tourist Hotel.

Literature

Form: Svenska slöjdföreningens tidskrift, Svenska slöjdföreningen, Stockholm, 1938. sp 156-188.
Pictures from the archive of Svenska Slöjdföreningen and from the company archive of AB Elsa Gullberg.

More information

The architects Rolf Engströmer, Carl Axel Acking, Nils Ahrbom & Helge Zimdal all worked for Elsa Gullberg att this time. Elsa Gullberg herself also designed furniture. This easy chair is probably designed by one of these architects.