By Ephraim Stahl
Located in New York, NY
Ephraim Ståhl (1767 Stockholm 1820), fine pair of Late Gustavian / Early Empire Chairs with intersecting arrows with centered rosettes, griffin motif and fluted legs, origin: Stockholm, Sweden, circa 1800, reupholstered in linen sateen fabric by Rogers & Goffigon.
At the Collective 2, NYC, Glenn Adamson, the Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, was the guest curator for Collective Focus: Scandinavia, a special exhibition booth at the Fair. Glenn selected and curated a very special, and small, selection of furniture and objects to showcase the best of design from Scandinavia. He chose these Late Gustavian Griffin motif chairs.
Very similar chairs by Ephraim Ståhl, illustrated in:
1. Stolens Guldålder; Stolar & Stolmarkare I Sverige 1650 - 1850, Torsten Sylvén, pg. 222
2. Nordiska Museets Möbler Från Svenska Herremanshem V. III, by Sigurd Wallin, pg. 139
3. Ephraim Ståhl, by Eva Nordenfelt, pg. 193
After seeing the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum and collections of Roman art and antiquities during his journey to Rome in 1783-4, Gustaf III...
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Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Ephraim Stahl Chairs