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Jan Bocan

(Czechia, 1937-2010)
Estimate
20 000 - 25 000 SEK
1 850 - 2 310 EUR
2 050 - 2 560 USD
Hammer price
55 000 SEK
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Jan Bocan
(Czechia, 1937-2010)

a pair of easy chairs, Thonet, executed for the Czechoslovakian Embassy, Stockholm, 1972.

Base in black lacquered wood, later seat in textile, back and sides in rattan, markings from the embassy. Seat height ca 40 cm, height 71 cm.

Later seats. Wear.

Provenance

The Czechoslovakian Embassy, Stockholm.

Jan Bocan was a professor at the Technical University in Prague. At the age of thirty, he won the architectural competition for the new Czechoslovak Embassy in Stockholm. This was his first major assignment. The embassy was a total work of art with all interiors, textiles and furniture designed by Bocan. It was designed and built between 1968-70 and opened in 1972.