Gunnar Asplund
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a set of four chairs for the Stockholm City Library, Nordiska Kompaniet ca 1928.
Birch, seats with girths, maker's mark AB Nordiska Kompaniet R59 - C19505, height 89 cm, seat height 44 cm.
One back with repair. Later girths.
Provenance
Lars Garpås.
Garpås was a former employee at the Stockholm Stadsbibliotek's storage (the Stockholm City Library) during the 1960s and 1970s.
He acquired these chairs at a sell out arranged by the library at the time.
Literature
Asplund, Gunnar, Alison, Filippo & Acking, Carl-Axel (ed.), Erik Gunnar Asplund: mobili e oggetti, Electa, Milano, 1985. p. 94.
Gordan, Dan, Svenska stolar och deras formgivare 1899-2013, [Ny, rev. utg.], Norstedt, Stockholm, 2014, p. 50-51.
Gunnar Asplund arkitekt: 1885-1940: ritningar, skisser och fotografier, 2. uppl., Byggförl., Stockholm, 1981[1943], p. 135.
Designer
Gunnar Asplund is considered one of the most significant and leading architects during the interwar period, both in Sweden and internationally. Asplund is seen as one of the foremost representatives of 1920s Nordic classicism, with the Skandia Theatre (1922) and the Stockholm Public Library (1928) as prominent examples. He was also one of the pioneers of functionalism, which he introduced in Sweden with the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930, where he was the chief architect.
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