Josef Frank
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Attributed to, a cast iron base table for Firma Svenskt Tenn, Sweden 1930s-40s.
Black lacquered base, circular top of black slate. Height 75 cm, diameter 130 cm.
Repair to the edge, wear, re-lacquered.
Literature
This model is in the Svenskt Tenn product catalogue with different options of table tops.
Compare table from 1925 and 1937
Du Rietz, Anita, Skönhet till vardags: Estrid Ericson och Svenskt tenn, Lorensvik förlag, 2018, pp 158,162, 191.
Bergquist, Mikael, Thun-Hohenstein, Christoph, Czech, Herrmann & Hackenschmidt, Sebastian, Josef Frank: against design : Das anti-formalistische Werk des Architekten = the architect´s anti-formalist oeuvre, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2016, pp 350-351.
Designer
Josef Frank was born in Austria and studied architecture in Vienna. As an architect, he worked with private home areas, villas and apartment buildings. In 1925 he started his own interior design firm Haus und Garten together with two architect colleagues. In connection with the advance of the Nazis, he emigrated to Sweden and was employed in 1934 at Svenskt Tenn. After the outbreak of World War II, Josef Frank, who came from a Jewish family, was forced into exile in New York. At Svenskt Tenn, he made an impact on the product range for four decades; especially when it comes to furniture and fabric prints.
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