Josef Frank
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a dining table model "B 752", Firma Svenskt Tenn, commissioned ca 1940.
Mahogany, rectangular with drop-leaf supports. Length 150 cm, width 100 cm, total length including 4 extension leaves of 60 cm each 390 cm, height 73 cm.
Wear, restored surface, one extension leaf with damages.
Provenance
Commissioned ca 1940 for Notary Lindén's villa, Västerås, designed by Architect Sven Markelius and built in 1932. See the furniture depicted from the family album "Villa Bredablick - August 1967".
Thence by descent within the family.
Literature
"Det växande hemmet - många intressanta och knepiga detaljer i den luxuösa "Arken" på Käringbacken" (The growing home - many interesting and tricky details in the luxurious 'Arken' at Käringbacken), Westmanlands Läns tidning, Saturday, September 6, 1941, see the furniture depicted from Lindén's dining room, p. 19.
Designer
Josef Frank was born in Austria and studied architecture in Vienna. As an architect, he worked with private home areas, villas and apartment buildings. In 1925 he started his own interior design firm Haus und Garten together with two architect colleagues. In connection with the advance of the Nazis, he emigrated to Sweden and was employed in 1934 at Svenskt Tenn. After the outbreak of World War II, Josef Frank, who came from a Jewish family, was forced into exile in New York. At Svenskt Tenn, he made an impact on the product range for four decades; especially when it comes to furniture and fabric prints.
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