Axel Einar Hjorth
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an "Åbo" stool, Nordiska Kompaniet, Sweden, 1930s.
Carved decoration, lacquered à craquelée in brown-red with gilt details, metal manufacturer's label NK R 37661 C 22590. Length 52 cm, width 37 cm, height 46 cm.
Wear, a decorative element on one leg is missing.
Provenance
Palacehuset, Gothenburg.
When the Palace Hotel was to be renovated in 1968, the hotel director Bertil Ekman donated a set of "Åbo" furniture that had been in the so-called "China Room" to the present owner's father, who was the hotel's cellar master at the time.
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Designed in 1934.
Designer
Axel Einar Hjorth is considered one of Sweden's most significant furniture designers during the 1920s and 30s. Hjorth's early employers included Svenska Möbelfabrikerna in Bodafors and the Stockholm Crafts Association. The big breakthrough came as chief architect for Nordiska Kompaniet, a position he took up in 1927 and held until 1938. Hjorth's first major assignment was the Nordiska Kompaniet's lavish stand at the World Exhibition in Barcelona in 1929, to then participate in several major international exhibitions during the following decade. In 1929, Hjorth also breaks new ground and designs the first series of rustic furniture in stained pine, the so-called sports cabin furniture that was named "Lovö", "Utö" and "Sandhamn" after the islands in the Stockholm archipelago.
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