The artist Sigrid Aminoff, née Oxenstierna (1904-1994), Stockholm.
Thence by descent to the current owner.

Aminoff studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 1925-1930, where she was a classmate of Göta Trägårdh. Göta, along with her husband Björn Trägårdh, a long-time collaborator at Svenskt Tenn, remained close friends with Aminoff.

Versions of mirrors in ebonized wood and pewter were displayed at the Swedish Exhibition of Industrial Arts & Crafts at Dorland House in London in March-April 1931 and subsequently at Galerie Moderne in Stockholm in September that same year.

Catalogue, "Möbler - Firma Svenskt Tenn", Bröderna Lagerström 1931, compare with the slightly larger model 1096 illustrated p. 25.
Eva Rudberg, "Uno Åhrén", Byggforskningsrådet 1981, compare p. 107.
Monica Boman (ed.), "Estrid Ericson: orkidé i vinterlandet", Carlssons 1989, compare Åhrén's original sketch for the exhibition in London p. 95.

Uno Åhrén was a significant Swedish architect and urban planner who graduated from Stockholm's Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology) in 1919 and made his debut with an interior design at the Hemutställningen (the Home Exhibition) exhibition at Liljevalchs in Stockholm 1917. Åhrén, who initially drew inspiration from Neoclassicism and Swedish Grace, subsequently became one of the leading advocates of Functionalism, with a focus on the social aspects of housing. He was one of the earliest designers to collaborate with Estrid Ericson at Firma Svenskt Tenn, where he designed both furniture and more luxurious pewter objects.

From the late 1910s onwards, Åhrén participated in a number of exhibitions, including, in addition to the aforementioned Hemutställningen in 1917, the Gothenburg Exhibition in 1923, the World’s Fair in Paris in 1925, the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930 and the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1933. After 1930, Åhrén devoted himself primarily to urban architecture and town planning, serving, among other positions, as city planning architect in Gothenburg from 1932 to 1943 and as head of Svenska Riksbyggen during the 1940s.

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