A ceiling pendant by Gunnar Asplund for Gärsnäs 1995-2002.
Diameter 65 cm.
Electrical function not tested. Minor wear.
Jämför; Hakon Ahlberg & Gustav Holmdahl, (red.), Gunnar Asplund arkitekt: 1885-1940 : ritningar, skisser och fotografier, Byggförlaget, Stockholm, 1981[1943], s. 133.
Ursprungligen formgivna av Gunnar Asplund till läsrummen på Stockholms Stadsbibliotek 1926-27. I nyproduktion av Gärsnäs mellan 1995-2002.
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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