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Gunnar Asplund

(Sweden, 1885-1940)
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Gunnar Asplund, a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Estimate
60 000 - 80 000 SEK
5 320 - 7 100 EUR
5 560 - 7 410 USD
Hammer price
100 000 SEK
Purchasing info
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Jonatan Jahn
Stockholm
Jonatan Jahn
Head Specialist Contemporary and Modern Design
+46 (0)703 92 88 60
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Gunnar Asplund
(Sweden, 1885-1940)

a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.

Birch, seats with girths, maker's mark AB Nordiska Kompaniet R59 - C19505, height 89 cm, seat height 44 cm.

One back with repair. Later girths.

Provenance

Lars Garpås.
Garpås was a former employee at the Stockholm Stadsbibliotek's storage (the Stockholm City Library) during the 1960s and 1970s.
He acquired these chairs at a sell out arranged by the library at the time.

Literature

Asplund, Gunnar, Alison, Filippo & Acking, Carl-Axel (ed.), Erik Gunnar Asplund: mobili e oggetti, Electa, Milano, 1985. p. 94.
Gordan, Dan, Svenska stolar och deras formgivare 1899-2013, [Ny, rev. utg.], Norstedt, Stockholm, 2014, p. 50-51.
Gunnar Asplund arkitekt: 1885-1940: ritningar, skisser och fotografier, 2. uppl., Byggförl., Stockholm, 1981[1943], p. 135.