Gunnar Asplund

a Swedish Grace cabinet, ca 1920.

Of demi-lune shape, painted, decorated with pearl beading, rosettes and a classical female figure, upper part with a glass door revealing a gilded and red-painted shelving interior, lower part with a door concealing a green-lacquered drawer and shelving interior. Width 105 cm, depth 43 cm, height 174.5 cm.

The present unique cabinet, designed by Asplund around 1920, was executed for his and his wife Gerda Sellman Asplund's private home at Mosebacke torg in Stockholm, and later moved to Långängens gård in Stocksund, where the family relocated in 1927. According to family tradition, the cabinet was executed at the Nordiska Kompaniet workshops in Nyköping at the request of Asplund, and it is Gerda who modelled for the carved female figure.

Repainted exterior, wear and minor damages. Keys included.