Bukowskis are pleased to present furniture by the Swedish designer and artist Gustaf Fjaestad to be sold at the Modern Art & Design auction on 12th November.
Gustaf Fjaestad's sculpted and carved furniture, which stands at Thielska Gallery, is often regarded as synonymous with the gallery itself. Now Bukowskis will sell a duplicate of the fantastic table that was delivered to Thielska Gallery in 1908, as well as six unique chairs. The furniture has been in the same family since 1914.

"Fjaestad's so-called stab furniture is made as almost fabelled expressions that have few counterparts, more natural romantic in style rather than Art Nouveau, with cut pine branches and bark decor," says Eva Seeman, specialist in Design & Modern Crafts.

Fjaestad's table was originally ordered by an American acquaintance to Thiel along with six bar stools. The chairs were manufactured around 1908 - 1909. The table was finished a few years later in 1914, yet the American customer sadly passing away before the furniture was delivered, thus it remained in Sweden.

Fjaestad later decided to give Thiel a gift consisting of the six supplementary chairs, which today are at the Thielska Gallery. The table which will be sold at Bukowskis the autumn is thus a copy of the Thiel table and is intended to complete the six chairs.

The complete furniture group, which will be on offer at Bukowskis Modern auction, was shown in 1914 at the Baltic exhibition in Malmö, where the pieces were returned to Fjaestad from the original buyer. He soon found another buyer in the tobacco manufacturer Erland P. Olsén in Arvika, where they remained until now.