Eliel Saarinen - Important Nordic Design London Wednesday, November 16, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The State Railways Administration Building, Helsinki

  • Literature

    Mirika Hausen, Kirmo Mikkola, Anna-Lisa Arnberg and Tytti Valto, The Architecture Of Eliel Saarinen: Projects 1896-1923, Cambridge, 1990, p. 168, fig. 23; Peter Fiell, Scandinavian Design, Cologne, 2002, p. 56

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Pair of office chairs for the State Railways Administration Building, Helsinki

1909
Oak, oak-veneered wood, carved wood.
Each: 81.5 cm (32 1/8 in) high
Underside of each chair with paper label ‘HALLINTORAKENNUS/ADMINISTRATIONSHUSET/SUOMEN VALTION RAUTATIET/FINSKA STATS JARNVAGARNA’ and signed in black ink with ‘Lükenne’ (2).

Estimate
£25,000 - 35,000 

Important Nordic Design

17 November 2011
London