Carl Bergsten - Nordic Design London Tuesday, September 23, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Auktionsverk, Stockholm, 1990
    Private collection, Stockholm
    Bukowskis, Stockholm, 'moderna + contemporary & design', 6-8 November 2001, lot 1121
    Bo Knutsson Konst och Antik, Stockholm
    Private collection, Los Angeles
    Calderwood Gallery, Philadelphia

  • Exhibited

    'The Stockholm Exhibition: Swedish Arts & Crafts and Home Industries', Djurgården, Stockholm, May - September 1930

  • Literature

    Gustaf Munthe, Svenska Slöjdföreningens Tidskrift: Organ För Konstindustri Handverk Och Hemslöjd, no. XXVI, Stockholm, 1930, illustrated p. 46, fig. 9
    Otto Schultz, ed., Boet, Gothenburg, 1930, illustrated p. 157
    Nils G. Wollin, Nutida Svensk Konstslöjd i Bild, Stockholm, 1931, illustrated p. 31
    Bengt O. H. Johansson, Carl Bergsten och svensk arkitekturpolitik under 1900-talets första decennium, Uppsala University, 1965, p. 225 furniture discussed from the 1930, Stockholm exhibition
    Bonnie Festin, Carl Bergsten - en arkitekt och hans former, Norrköping, 2005, illustrated p. 72

  • Catalogue Essay

    Phillips wishes to thank Thomas Ekström for his assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.

Σ86

Unique chest of drawers, from The Stockholm Exhibition: Swedish Arts & Crafts and Home Industries, Djurgården

1930
Rosewood-veneered wood, rosewood, maple-veneered wood, nickel-plated bronze.
78 x 90.2 x 39.5 cm (30 3/4 x 35 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.)
Produced by AB Nordiska Kompaniet, Sweden.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

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Ben Williams
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Nordic Design

London 24 September 2014 6pm