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Knut Fjaestad

(Sweden, 1860-1937)
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Knut Fjaestad, an Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.
Estimate
40 000 - 50 000 SEK
3 800 - 4 740 EUR
4 340 - 5 430 USD
Hammer price
270 000 SEK
Bidding requires special pre approval.
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Eva Seeman
Stockholm
Eva Seeman
Chief Specialist Modern and Contemporary Decorative art and design
+46 (0)708 92 19 69
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Knut Fjaestad
(Sweden, 1860-1937)

An Art Nouveau sculpted and carved pine chair, Sweden, 1915.

Carved decoration of pine cones and branches, loose seat cushion with brown leather, signed FJÄSTAD and with an inscription under the seat "Sommaren 1915 till Hilda af Knut F" (Summer 1915 to Hilda af Knut F). Height 72 cm, width 50 cm, seat height 46 cm.

Dry cracks. Reinforced.

Provenance

A gift in 1915 from Knut Fjaestad to Hilda Eklund, Skönnerud.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

A postcard addressed to Hilda and Arvid Eklund from Knut Fjaestad at Christmas 1926, as well as a photograph of Fjaestad, accompanies this lot.

Designer

Inspired by his younger brother Gustaf's so-called "stabbestolar," Knut Fjaestad began to carve wooden furniture around 1907. He had then recently acquired the 18th-century house Bjälbo at Skärsätra farm on Lidingö, and had previously been active as a merchant in Gamla stan in Stockholm. His brother Gustaf Fjaestad had been carving furniture since 1894, when the earliest known "stabbestol" was made. This type of chair was produced and took its shape from a log (stabbe). Unlike his brother, who studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Knut was self-taught. Knut Fjaestad himself called his carved wooden furniture "works of imagination" and first showed them at an exhibition on Birger Jarlsgatan in Stockholm in 1923.

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