a large mirror, Firma Svenskt Tenn, 1940s-50s.
Frame in brass. Diameter 123 cm.
Minor superficial wear.
Managing director Göran Delin (1920-2007), cousin of the artist Hilding Linnqvist's wife Märta Delin-Linnqvist.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Åke Stavenow (ed.), "Form - Svenska Slöjdföreningens Tidskrift", Self-published 1939, compare p. 176.
Anita Du Rietz, "Skönhet till vardags: Estrid Ericson och Svenskt Tenn", Lorensvik förlag 2018, model illustrated in an interior p. 242.
Josef Frank was born in Austria and studied architecture in Vienna. As an architect, he worked with private home areas, villas and apartment buildings. In 1925 he started his own interior design firm Haus und Garten together with two architect colleagues. In connection with the advance of the Nazis, he emigrated to Sweden and was employed in 1934 at Svenskt Tenn. After the outbreak of World War II, Josef Frank, who came from a Jewish family, was forced into exile in New York. At Svenskt Tenn, he made an impact on the product range for four decades; especially when it comes to furniture and fabric prints.
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