Otto Schulz, sofa, master carpenter Carl Thorsson, Gothenburg 1912.
Light mahogany, upholstered seat and back, green striped fabric covering. Length 198 cm, height 96 cm, seat height ca. 41 cm.
Insignificant wear.
The furniture was ordered for a gentleman's room in the Eklund family's home in Lindome and has since remained in the same family's possession until the house was sold a few years ago and the furniture passed to the current owner.
Mölndal Museum Lindome furniture 27 March - 27 November 1994. Depicted in the catalogue on p. 51. The furniture was designed for the Crafts and Industry Exhibition in Halmstad in 1912.
"Nya Möbler" av Arkitekt Otto Schulz, Gothenburg 1913, illustrated in "Gentleman's room in light-polished mahogany with fittings in copper" pp. 55,57.
Otto Schulz trained as an interior architect at the Technical School in Charlottenburg from 1900 to 1907. Between 1904 and 1907, he concurrently apprenticed with the Swedish-born architect Professor Alfred Grenander (1863-1931). Grenander's influence on Schulz's earliest furniture is evident. For example, see the chairs designed by Grenander and sold at Bukowskis Modern auction 575 in the autumn of 2013, catalogue no. 385. In 1907, after receiving a diploma from the Kunstgewerbe Museum in Berlin, Schulz moved to Sweden and Gothenburg. After a period of employment, he established his own practice as an interior architect in 1910.