Axel Einar Hjorth
SPORTSTUGEMÖBEL, a pine table, Nordiska Kompaniet, attributed to Axel Einar Hjorth, Sweden 1930's.
Measurements 131 x 74,5 cm, height 75 cm.
Wear, stains, loose top with damage to surface.
Provenance
Georg Pehrsson's Konditori & Festvåning, Skellefteå, Sweden, thence by descent. There were also chairs model Lovö, see no 1180087 and 1180106.
Literature
Skellefteå museum, see some of the furniture illustrated from the dining room.
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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