Swedish End Tables

Pair of bedside tables, anonymous for DUX, Sweden, 1960s. Cane, rattan and teak. The colonial-style combination of cane, rattan, and teak makes this Scandinavian bedside table...

Side table 915 by Alvar Aalto, made from birch bentwood with a white lacquered table top and shelf. Appealing, flowing lines with soft corners. Designed in 1932, originally for the P...

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

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...

Pair of wall-mounted shelves by Uno and Östen Kristiansson, made from teak. One has two drawers, the other three. Perfect as bedside tables. Cool proportions, beautiful handles and d...

Pair of rosewood bedside tables by Severin Hansen with one shelf under each table top. Beautiful veneer and Severin Hansen’s...

Striking Swedish 1950s side or small coffee table, with a soft triangle tabletop. Inlays of a beautiful, graphic pattern in different types of wood. Stained wood legs and brass feet.

Occasional table, anonymous, Sweden, 1950s. Walnut. Lacquered metal and brass. Extendable table top. Measures: H 45 cm/ 1' 5 3/4" W 57 cm/ 1' 10 2/5" L 92 - 162 cm/ 3' 1/4" ...

Good Swedish early 19th century tilt top tripod table with original paint decoration, the top with scumble paint resembling burr alder or burl birch grain over chalky white painted b...

Bedside / side table designed by Josef Frank. Produced by Svenskt Tenn in Sweden.

Bedside / side table designed by Josef Frank. Produced by Svenskt Tenn in Sweden.

Nightstand Swedish black 19th century Sweden. A nightstand made during the 19th century in Sweden. Painted in our Laserow black. Interior with shelf. Contemporary hardware.