Nordiska Kompaniet
A Swedish dressing table and a bedside table, Nordiska Kompaniet, 1943
Marked R45216-C7144 and R45215-C7144. Lightly painted wood. Dressing table with an oval mirror, edge trim, and a lift-up top above storage compartments, as well as drawers, straight tapering legs. The mirror can be unscrewed. Width 106-166, depth 45, height 71, height with mirror 126 cm.
Bedside table with a curved front, compartment, and drawer, straight tapering legs. Width 48, depth 33, height 59 cm. Key included.
Minor wear. Marks.
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Both pieces of furniture were manufactured and ordered by the same customer in 1943.
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Nordiska Kompaniets verkstäder (the Nordiska Kompaniet workshops) were a Swedish manufacturer of furniture and lighting fixtures for the department store Nordiska Kompaniet (NK) between 1904 and 1973. The company had its factory in Nyköping and was once the city's largest industry. In the workshops, both specially commissioned and serially produced furniture were executed. During the 1920s, NK's workshops produced interiors for many public buildings including the Concert Hall in Stockholm and the offices of the Swedish Match Company. From the 1930s and onwards, commissioned interior design projects were an essential part of the workshops' output. The architect Carl Bergsten was chief architect at the workshops between 1917 and 1921, and Axel Einar Hjorth held the position between 1927 and 1938.
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