A late 19th-century sofa, Hotel Kämp, Helsinki. Length 315 cm.
Height to seat ca. 46 cm, depth of the seat ca. 65 cm. Length 315 cm, total height 113 cm. Marked with the Finnish Broadcasting Company plaque and inventory number B17.
A damage in the back in both ends of the frame. Renovated in 1999. The general impression is good.
Provenance
Bought from the Hotel Kämp auction of movable assets in 1964, where after owned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company, the props collection.
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Hotel Kämp on the Pohjoisesplanadi (Northern Esplanade) in Helsinki was inaugurated on October 29, 1887 as a distinctive 5-floor luxury hotel with even a hydraulic lift. The furniture was mainly ordered from St. Petersburg, the crystal chandeliers from Berlin. The guests were served fresh oysters from Odense. Many of the country's greatest cultural personalities, artists and architects gathered around the tables over the years, among them Jean Sibelius, Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Eliel Saarinen. The hotel director Carl Kämp himself died as early as 1889. The hotel business was closed down in 1965 but resumed in the same building, designed by Theodor Höijer, in 1999. Today Hotel Kämp belongs to the prestigious association for luxury hotels, LHW.
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