Carl Malmsten - Design Day Sale London Monday, April 27, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Atlas Copco, Nacka, Stockholm, 1956
    Acquired from the above by a former employee, 1970s
    Thence by descent

  • Literature

    Tyra Lundgren, 'Märta Måås Fjetterström Gärning', Form: Svenska Slöjdföreningens Tidskrift, no. 1, 1940, p. 196 for a similar example
    Åke Stavenow, ed., Form: Svenska Slöjdföreningens Tidskrift, no. 1, 1945, p. 227 for an advertisement
    Erik Zahle, ed., A Treasury of Scandinavian Design: The standard authority on Scandinavian-designed furniture, textiles, glass, ceramics and metal, New York, 1961, p. 73, fig. 2 for a similar example

  • Catalogue Essay

    Phillips wishes to thank Hanna Berndalen from the Carl Malmsten-arkivet for her assistance with the cataloguing of the present lot.

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Set of ten 'Chefen större' armchairs, from the Atlas Copco boardroom, Nacka, Stockholm

designed 1943, executed 1956
Mahogany, fabric, brass studs.
Each: 90.8 x 66.3 x 69.7 cm (35 3/4 x 26 1/8 x 27 1/2 in.)
Produced by Carl Malmsten AB, Stockholm, Sweden. Each underside impressed with CM.

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for £22,500

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Meaghan Roddy
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Design Day Sale

London Day Sale 28 April 2015 2pm