Shak Gallery

The Argenta collection, now emblematic with its green glaze and silver decorations, is one of Wilhelm Käge's most recognizable motifs. Designed in the late 1920s, it was first prese...

Original Label: Hans-Agne Jakobsson AB Markaryd, Made in Sweden. B204/31 Total height of the lamp base 44 cm Height with shade 64.5 cm Diameter of the lamp base approx. 25 cm Diam...

The "Utö" stool created by one of the great names of industrial design in Sweden - Axel Einar Hjorth (1888-1959) - takes its designation from the Utö island in the Stockholm archipel...

This beautiful golden brown Pedro Friedeberg hand chair was commissioned in the 1960s and is crafted of solid Honduran Mahogany. In 1961 when Pedro was working with artist Mathias Go...

Argenta Vase with nude woman Algot Wilhelm Kåge (6 March 1889 – 25 November 1960) was a Swedish artist and designer, mainly known as a ceramic d...

Argenta Vase with mermaid catching a fish on one side and fish on the other side. Algot Wilhelm Kåge (6 March 1889 – 25 November 1960) was a Swe...

Shaker table model 5267 for Danish Furniture makers in Fredericia, Denmark. Among the great mid-20th century Danish furniture designers, Børge Mogensen distinguished himself with his faith to traditional values of craftsmanship and honesty of materials. While peers such as Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl and Arne Jacobsen designed some of the most striking and now iconic furnishings of the era, Mogensen focused on making pieces that were simple, durable and comfortable — and in the long run perhaps more useful and better loved. Mogensen studied under and later worked for Kaare Klint, a master cabinetmaker whose chief tenets were quality of construction and simplicity of line. Klint was a classicist, who believed that furniture forms should evolve from those of historical models. So, too, in his way was Mogensen, as two of his best-known earlier pieces attest. His 1945 Spokeback Sofa, with hinged arms that can be lowered to facilitate lounging, is a reinterpretation of the venerable Knole settee. With the oval silhouette of its plywood backrest and waterdrop-shaped cutouts, Mogenson’s Shell chair, designed in 1949, can be seen as a novel take on early 19th century Empire side chairs. Yet Mogensen shared the aesthetical sensibilities of his most forward-looking colleagues. His cabinets deploy the same spare geometries and lushly figured woods as those of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his disciple Florence Knoll, the chief difference being that Mies and Knoll used...

This chair has the Tokyo Japan stamp as most probably was made for export. Ubunji Kikodoro "rocking" chair designed in 1937 for the Mitsukoshi furnit...

Argenta Vase with geometric patterns. Signed Handrejad Argenta 1079. Gustavsberg, Kåge. Y -This letter is the marking for the year 1955. Algot Wilhelm Kåge (6 March 1889 – 25 N...

This beautiful piece is part of the artist's "Argenta" Series, produced for the Gustavsberg Factory, which won him his first major success. “Argenta” was introduced at the Stockholm ...

Pierre Forsell (Sweden, 1925-2004) A brass table lamp by Pierre Forsell, second half of the 20th century. Executed by the craftsman Frans Goldberg in Pierre Forssell’s studio at Skul...

Vase ‘Surrea’ designed by Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1940s. Algot Wilhelm Kåge (6 March 1889 – 25 November 1960) was a Swedish artist ...