A rare pair of Swedish Grace armchairs, 1920s.
Stained birch, upholstered in green textile. Height 102 cm, width 64 cm.
Wear, patina, reupholstered.
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A variant of the model with curved armrests was designed for and displayed at the Bygge och Bo exhibition at Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm in 1922, illustrated in a photograph in the collections of the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm (identification number TEKA0145719).
Bukowskis wishes to thank the Carl Malmsten Archive for valuable insights during the cataloguing of this item.
More about Carl Malmsten
Carl Malmsten is one of Sweden's most famous furniture designers. Many of his furniture are considered modern design classics, for example, the cane chair "Lilla Åland", the armchair "Farmor", the sofa "Samsas", the cabinet "Herrgården", and the furniture series "Vardag".
Both "Lilla Åland" and "Vardag" adopted the ideals of "beautiful everyday goods" of the 1940s. Their neat shape and frugal design quickly became timeless interior details that we still see in many homes today.
At the beginning of his career, Malmsten interned at various carpentry workshops and studied furniture at Nordiska museet and Skansen. He had his breakthrough in 1916 when he was commissioned to design part of the interior of Stockholm's City Hall.
During his career, Malmsten collaborated with several architects, such as Ragnar Östberg, Ivar Tengbom, and Ferdinand Boberg. He designed furniture for Stockholm's concert hall and Ulriksdal castle. He participated in the now iconic hosing exhibition at Liljevalchs gallery in 1917, where the term "Beautiful everyday goods" was coined.
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