Important Spring Sale presents E. Ståhl (Master in Stockholm 1794-1820) | June 10–12
The Finnish-born Georg Haupt Ståhl became an apprentice chairmaker in Stockholm in 1785, where he trained under the skilled masters Jaccob Malmsten and Lars Söderholm. In 1794 he was admitted as a master chairmaker and was thereby granted permission to establish his own business in Stockholm.
Ståhl was both exceptionally skilled and remarkably industrious. By 1800, after only six years as a master, he had the largest workshop in the city. That same year, Duke Charles — the future Charles XIII of Sweden — commissioned several suites of chairs for the new interiors at Rosersberg Palace. In the same year, Ståhl was also appointed Royal Court Chairmaker, a title he retained until the coup d’état of 1809.
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The chairs offered in this sale belong to one of Ståhl’s most refined models. Both their form and decoration draw inspiration from Antiquity and from the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. These influences may have reached Ståhl through the royal interiors designed by Louis Masreliez during the 1780s, following his return to Sweden from Italy.
A set of fourteen chairs of the same model, with their double sets of curved trestle legs and carved Egyptianising heads, is now at Strömsholm Palace, having been moved there from Stockholm Palace by Charles XV of Sweden in 1868.
Ephraim Ståhl at Important Spring Sale
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