Swedish End Tables

A pair of Swedish design nightstands or small night tables in mahogany wood with the original brass handles, leather imitations decorations and a shelf on top. This Scandinavian pair...

A pair of Swedish nightstands or small night tables in teak wood. The legs made in beech wood and the pair each have a drawer and a shelf for magazines. This pair of Scandinavian ni...

A charming pair of Swedish nightstands or small night tables in birch burl veneer wood with removable glass tops and the original brass hardware. Th...

Pair of two drawer nightstands or end tables by Edmond Spence. Beautiful figured maple. Solid wood construction. Finished backs.Original finish. Sweden, 1950s. Edmond J. Spence (1911-1986) was born in Montreal and followed several generations of his family that were also in the furniture business. Spence, an architectural designer and production engineer, was based in New York in the 1940s. His first company was Spence-Rigolo Inc. It was later changed to Edmond J Spence Co when his future wife, Jean Watt Spence (1918-2010), bought architect Arthur Rigolo’s stake in the company. Jean was Vice President as well as a designer and color consultant. The company designed for a wide range of major furniture makers. In the early 1950s, it was noted that Edmond was a champion on the ‘New Modern’ and hardly a store did not feature a Spence...

An elegant pair of Baroque style bedside tables/nightstands with mirrored tops. The bedside tables are bow fronted with one single door with feature brass-handles and subtle curves, ...

Pair of elegant bedside or side tables by Josef Frank, made in mahogany. Clean, slender lines, single drawers and neat brass handles.

An exceptional pair of mid-century Swedish Modern black lacquered birch nightstands Designed by Edmond Spence Sweden, 1950s Measures: 22"W x ...

A Classic tripod folding table by Nils Trautner. Removable teak serving tray top, base collapses for easy transport. Ingenious design allows the ...

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...

A pair of mid-century cabinets marked Sweden 14. Finished on all four sides, Circa 1955. Edmond Spence was an American designer who was heavily influenced by the Danish modern furnit...

With mirror top. Wonderful details.

Two tiered side table by Alvar Aalto for Artek, Sweden, circa 1950s. The table features birch bentwood legs and lower shelf with curved ends, and has a thin birch plywood top over a ...