Nordiska Kompaniet
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a copper ceiling lamp, made for a Swedish "Sportstuge" interior, 1930's, provenance Brostugan, Drottningholm, Stockholm.
Iron and perforated copper plate with leather stripes. Length 98 cm, width 26 cm, height 26,5 cm.
Some minor damages, wear, pieces of leather stripes missing, later chain.
Provenance
Brostugan, Drottningholm, Stockholm.
Literature
Eric Philippe, "Axel Einar Hjorth "Sportstugemöbler", exhibition catalogue 19 October- 16 November 2013, Paris, compare very similar lamp illustrated from Nordiska Kompaniet's exhibition, ca 1930, p 4.
More information
Brostugan was built as a bridge keeper's residence during the 1780s after Gustav III had the first bridge built between Kärsön and Drottningholm Castle. The building had this function until 1931, when it was instead renovated and rebuilt into a café under the direction of architect Ivar Tengbom. During this transformation, a new interior with "Sportstuge" furniture by Axel Einar Hjorth for Nordiska Kompaniet, model Sandhamn, also took place.
Some of the furniture was custom-made to the building and is thus unique objects. The auction lamp is one of the very few luminaires documented in Nordiska Kompaniet's sports cabin interiors.
Designer
Nordiska Kompaniets verkstäder (the Nordiska Kompaniet workshops) were a Swedish manufacturer of furniture and lighting fixtures for the department store Nordiska Kompaniet (NK) between 1904 and 1973. The company had its factory in Nyköping and was once the city's largest industry. In the workshops, both specially commissioned and serially produced furniture were executed. During the 1920s, NK's workshops produced interiors for many public buildings including the Concert Hall in Stockholm and the offices of the Swedish Match Company. From the 1930s and onwards, commissioned interior design projects were an essential part of the workshops' output. The architect Carl Bergsten was chief architect at the workshops between 1917 and 1921, and Axel Einar Hjorth held the position between 1927 and 1938.
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