Attributed to, a rare ebonized pear wood and pewter mirror model "A 1154", Firma Svenskt Tenn, early 1930s.
Of square shape. 55 x 55 cm.
The inner pewter inlay later, minor surface wear and tape remnants.
Literature
Catalogue, "Möbler - Firma Svenskt Tenn", Bröderna Lagerström 1931, model illustrated on the cover.
Exhibition catalogue, "Exhibition of Swedish Industrial Art London 1931", Nordisk Rotogravyr 1931, model illustrated pl. 50.
Eva Rudberg, "Uno Åhrén", Byggforskningsrådet 1981, compare model illustrated p. 107.
Hedvig Hedqvist, Rikard Jacobson & Jan von Gerber, "Modernt Svenskt Tenn", Atlantis 2004, p. 91.
More information
Designed ca 1929-30.
The model is recorded in the production log in the archive at Svenskt Tenn without a documented designer. Versions of mirrors in ebonized wood and pewter designed by Uno Åhrén 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, which is why Åhrén is considered the attributed designer of the present mirror model.
More about Uno Åhrén
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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