Sven Markelius and other architects/designers, 10 modernist door handles, Sweden 1930s.
Handles with black knob, from Sven Markelius' villa in Nockeby, Bromma height 8-12 cm.
Door handles in nickel plated brass, yellow cellouid knob, from Gothenburg's earliest modernist concrete building, height ca 8-10 cm.
Damages.
Rolf Walter Collection.
Some of these models exhibited at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930.
Råberg, Per G., Funktionalistiskt genombrott: en analys av den svenska funktionalismens program 1925-1931, Sveriges Arkitekturmuseum, Diss. Stockholm : Univ.,Stockholm, 1970, p. 206.
Wichmann, Hans, Neu Donationen und Neuerwerbungen 1986/87: Industrial Design, Unikate, Serienerzeugnisse : Die Neue Sammlung Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, München 1989, Das Museum, München, 1989, p. 131.