Josef Frank Coffee and Cocktail Tables

The Josef Frank designed model 1020 table for Svenskt Tenn is really a classic within the Svenskt Tenn catalog. The dining variant of this design is still in production but the coffe...

Serving trolley by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, circa 1950. Brass frame with perforated sheet metal shelf and removable tray. Wheels run smoothly. Dimensions H 75cm (handles) 63...

Beautiful side table or small coffee table by Josef Frank, with a round birch root table top. Legs sculpted with wooden balls.

Rare and important Coffe table model 1058 designed by Josef Frank and manufactured by Svenskt tenn. The table has a table top made in elm root and legs made of solid walnut with pr...

Art Deco Vintage walnut side table or sofa table by Josef Frank for Haus & Garten, Vienna circa 1925. A stunning three legged shellac polished Art Deco vintage side table or sofa ta...

Mahogany coffee or console table by Josef Frank, an early model made in the 1950s. Beautiful table top with flaming veneer.

Beautiful, mahogany coffee table by Josef Frank, with the rounded square table top standing on pawed legs. Sweeping wood grain in the table top th...

Rare mahogany nesting table by Josef Frank, with graphic lines and a beautiful lightness in the design. Can be used separately.

Measures: 110cm W x 70cm D 48cm H Walnut framed coffee table with veneered burled wood Handcrafted in Sweden.

Small and sweet side table by Josef Frank. Elegant design with nice proportions. Long sculpted legs and tabletop with smooth, sweeping veneer. About Josef Frank: Josef Frank was an Austrian-born architect and designer known for his contributions to the Swedish interior firm Svenskt Tenn. His furniture, fabrics, and lighting are both elegant and whimsical. Frank worked as an architect while in Austria and designed furniture and accessories for the firm Haus und Garten. Frank helped to define modern Viennese design through his design principles, and by collaborating with other Austrian architects. This collaboration culminated in the “Neues Weiner Wolmen”, or “New Viennese Living” group. The group started in the 1920s and rejected regimented ways of arranging interiors. For example, they believed that a home should be comprised of many different objects, rather than furniture suites; items should look unique but remain adaptable. Josef Frank left Austria in 1933, following the rise of Nazism. His wife, Anna, was Swedish. Estrid Ericsson first ordered furniture designed by Josef Frank in 1932, so it was natural that Frank took a job with Svenskt Tenn in 1934. Although Frank and Ericsson’s collaboration was successful, Frank was still committed to architecture; he moved to New York in 1938 to pursue public housing projects. This endeavor was not fruitful, but he worked as a professor at the New School and stayed in New York until 1946. He began designing for Svenskt Tenn again the same year and remained with them until his retirement. Svenskt Tenn had produced subdued, functionalist pieces before Ericsson hired Frank. They sold both furniture and objects, but most of their pieces were made of pewter, or pewter paired with darkly stained wood. Frank brought color and light to Svenskt Tenn. His work referenced traditional European furniture, but with a bolder edge. He continued to design based on the principles he established with New Viennese Living but came to coin his design approach “Accidentalism”. In a 1956 essay for the Swedish magazine Form, he wrote “we should design our surroundings as if they originated by chance.”. He rejected modernism’s uniformity and proposed a future in which people do not decorate based on a set of rules, but instead choose diverse objects and arrange them functionally. Josef Frank’s textiles...

Striking coffee table by Josef Frank with a birch frame and beautiful alder root tabletop. Organic silhouette that imitates the shape of a tree trunk.

Josef Frank for Haus & Garten Art Deco vintage walnut side table, which was designed and manufactured circa 1925 in Vienna. The cute side tab...