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.
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.
Designed in 1934.