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Occasional Table Model 2180 Designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden

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  • Occasional Table Designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1950s
    By Josef Frank
    Located in Stockholm, SE
    Occasional table designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden. 1950s. Mahogany. H: 45 cm L: 80 cm D: 40 cm Josef Frank was a true European, he was also a pioneer of what would become classic 20th century Swedish design and the “Scandinavian Design Style”. Austrian- born Frank started his design career as an architect after having trained at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna between 1903 and 1910. After his training he went on to teach at Kunstgewerbeschule (The Viennese School of Arts and crafts) where he developed and espoused the new school of modernist thinking towards Architecture and Design that was coming to fruition in Vienna at the time. He also went on to lead the Vienna Werkbund throughout the 1920s. This was a truly progressive group of Architects and Designers who set about improving the daily lives of Austrian people through modernist design and architecture in partnership with Arts and Crafts ideals and construction. Frank’s leadership of the Werkbund had already cemented his place at the forefront of European design. Frank’s time in Vienna was typified by his design for the “Die Wohnung” exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund in Stuttgart, 1927 where he exhibited along side his contemporaries at the forefront of design, such as the likes of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. Here he showed a specially designed pair of flat-roofed reinforced concrete houses in what is now seen as a typical modernist style. What separated Frank’s house from the other 32 houses of the exhibition was the interior and furniture inside the building. It was described as “Neo-Classical” and filled with an eclectic mix of period pieces, modern design and pieces designed by Frank himself that seemed to cross the two worlds. This was a complete opposite direction to that which his fellow Architects were travelling in with their pared back and angular aesthetics. Frank said of his own work: “The house is not a work of art, simply a place where one lives,” and by this reasoning Frank rejected the regimental mechanisation of the living space that his contemporaries believed in, instead he set about creating congenial and spontaneous interiors. Frank’s practice saw him placing the bright colours and the soft forms of nature back into the furnishings and interiors that he thought modernism sorely mist. Frank, along with Oskar Walch set up Haus und Garten in Vienna in 1925. This was Frank’s first commercial foray into furniture and home furnishings and the company went on to become the most influential furnishing house in Vienna with a riotous depth of colour and interesting shapes becoming the trademark of their design. However this success was to come to an end with rise of Nazism in Vienna in the early 1930’s. Frank was Jewish, and he and his wife Anna decided they would leave Vienna for her motherland: Sweden, in 1933. Frank continued to design for Haus and Garten, visiting Vienna occasionally and designing the pieces that would continue to be the company’s best...
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    Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Tables

    Materials

    Mahogany

  • Occasional table model U 601 designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden
    By Josef Frank, Svenskt Tenn
    Located in Stockholm, SE
    Occasional table model U 601 designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1960s / 1970s. Mahogany, glass and brass. The map is a replica of the world map drawn by the Venetian...
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    Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

    Materials

    Brass

  • Occasional Table Designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1950s
    By Josef Frank
    Located in Stockholm, SE
    Occasional table designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1950s. Mahogany. Measurements: H: 60 cm/ 23 1/2'' Length when extened: 104 cm/ 3' 5'' D: 54 cm/ 21 1/2''   Jose...
    Category

    Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Side Tables

    Materials

    Mahogany

  • Occasional Table Model 2168 Designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn
    By Josef Frank
    Located in Stockholm, SE
    Occasional table model 2168 designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden. 1950s. Walnut and marble. Josef Frank’s occasional table “model 2168” is one of his rarer models. Its beautifully carved, turned legs...
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    Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Tables

    Materials

    Marble

  • Table model 590 designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1950s, Elm
    By Josef Frank, Svenskt Tenn
    Located in Stockholm, SE
    Table model 590 designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1950s. Elm table top, cherry base, and brass. Stamped. Josef Frank was a true European, he was also a pioneer of ...
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    Vintage 1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Tables

    Materials

    Brass

  • Bedside Table Model ‘914’ Designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden
    By Josef Frank
    Located in Stockholm, SE
    Bedside table model 914 designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1950s. Mahogany veneer and brass handle. Josef Frank’s elegant bedside table model 914 with sophisticated ...
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    Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Side Tables

    Materials

    Brass

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    Rare and important Coffe table model 1058 designed by Josef Frank and manufactured by Svenskt tenn. The table has a table top made in elm root and legs made of solid walnut with pr...
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  • Marble Coffee Table by Josef Frank, Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1950s
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    Elegant coffee table by Josef Frank, with a mahogany base and black marble coffee top. Elegant, light base contrasts with the heavy top. Rounded corners.
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  • Marble and Mahogany Side Table by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1950s
    By Josef Frank, Svenskt Tenn
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    Beautiful side table by Josef Frank, with an oval green marble table top on a slender mahogany base. Deep green marble, lovely sculpted legs and feet.
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  • Side Table Model 961 Designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden
    By Josef Frank
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    Side table/Occasional model 961 designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1950s. Mahogany.
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  • Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn 'Model 2139' Coffee Table in Walnut Burl
    By Josef Frank, Svenskt Tenn
    Located in Waalwijk, NL
    Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, coffee table model 2139, walnut burl top, walnut legs, maple rim, Sweden, design 1948, manufactured ca. 1955 This classic coffee table is designed by J...
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  • Luxurious Walnut & Burled Wood 2139 Table by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, 1952
    By Svenskt Tenn, Frank Josef
    Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
    This luxurious, round 2139 table was designed by Josef Frank for the Swedish manufacture Svenskt Tenn in 1952 and made later. The table is made of walnut, and its characteristic feat...
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    Vintage 1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Tables

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