a Swedish Grace birch sideboard, 1910- 1920's
Birch veneer, front with two cabinet doors and four drawers, height 74 cm, width 114 cm, depth 49 cm. Key included.
Wear and damages.
Gunnar Asplund, thence by descent.
This sideboard was designed by Asplund for his own home and has since then remained in the Asplund family.
Gunnar Asplund was one of the most significant architects of his time in Sweden. Asplund represented Nordic Classicism in the 1920s and was a pioneer of Functionalism, which he helped introduce through the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930. His most important works include the Stockholm City Library and the Woodland Cemetery, which he designed with Sigurd Lewerentz.
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