Sweden - Seating

"Borgen" Easy chair by Axel Einar Hjorth c. 1929. Upholstery, lacquered wood. NK manufacturers metal label ‘NK R 34433 – C 25648’. Designed by Axel Einar Hjorth for the S...

Rare armchair / lounge chair designed by Eberhard Krauss for Thonet in 1930 for the exhibition "Thonet Werkbund" in Vienna. This model is sometimes also wrongly attributed to Adolf S...

Pair of beautiful side chairs by Carl Malmsten. Made from stained wood with rattan backs, contrasting elegantly in color. Lovely, flowing lines, light expression.

Very rare easy chair model Aulanko designed by Märta Blomstedt. Produced by Häämenlinna in Finland. Designed in 1939 for Hotel Aulanko’s lounge area.  

Set of ten dining chairs by Carl-Axel Acking, made from beech bentwood in a neat design with elegantly curved backs. These chairs were originally made in 1937 for Tösse Bakery in Sto...

Armchair by Uno Åhrén ca. 1930s Mohair velvet, stained wood feet. Designed ca. 1930 by Uno Åhrén. Produced by Firma Svenskt Tenn. Uno Åhrén (1897...

Rare stool by Gustav Axel Berg. Produced by Gustav Axel Berg (GA Berg) in Sweden.

Set of six dining chairs model 526 designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1934. Mahogany and rattan with seats upholstered in Frank’s "Anakreon" fabric. Marked "BODAFORS...

Pair of stools by unknown designer. Probably produced in Sweden.

Rare easy chair attributed to Kay Fisker. Produced in Denmark.

Rare model, produced in Sweden during the 1930s, anonymous. Please note: In need of new upholstery.

Fireside chair with a dark oak frame and red Naugahyde fabric from the 1930s, attributed to Austrian designer Adolf Loos. Adolf Loos used variants of this model in different interior...

Pair of Utö/Uto pine chair by Axel-Einar Hjorth, Sweden, circa 1930s. Produced by Nordiska Kompaniet.   

Rare armchair model no 3758A / ‘The red chair’ designed by Kaare Klint. Produced by Rud. Rasmussen in Denmark.

Rare set of 6 dining chairs designed by Erik Chambert. Produced by AB Chamberts Möbelfabrik in Norrköping, Sweden.

Produced 1963 by Artek, acquired new by previous owner. Designed by Alvar Aalto in 1932, Armchair 41 was created for the interior of a tuberculosis sanator...

Rare set of 10 dining chairs designed by Torsten Claeson. Produced by Steneby Hemslöjd in Sweden. Retailed at Meeths in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Amazing Swedish 1930s lounge chair in an oversized design with clean lines. Upholstered with sheepskin in a warm nuance, enhancing the inviting look of the chair.

Armchair 42 “Small Paimio” designed by Alvar Aalto, Finland, 1931. Bent birch and lacquered plywood. Dimesnions: H: 63 cm/ 2' 1" W: 60 cm/ 1' 11 1/2" D: ...

Very rare easy chair designed by Frits Henningsen. Produced by cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen in Denmark.

Alvar Aalto armchair No. 31. Produced by Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas Oy Turku, circa 1934-1935. Bent laminated birch frame, seat in laminated birch root veneer.

Very rare armchair designed by Frits Henningsen. Produced by cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen in Denmark.

Elegant, oversized Swedish Modern sofa, in a U-formed design, slightly shorter on one end. Mahogany veneer encircles the sides and inside. Upholst...

Pair of beautiful lounge chairs by Axel Larsson, with curved armrests creating striking, open and elongated silhouettes. Made from birch, upholstered with linen fabric.  

Very rare armchair attributed to Frits Henningsen. Produced by cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen in Denmark.

Very rare pair model Aulanko easy chairs by Märta Blomstedt. Produced by Häämenlinna in Finland. Designed in 1939 for Hotel Aulanko’s lounge area.

Rare side chair by unknown designer. Probably produced in Sweden.

Rare pair of easy chairs attributed to Uno Åhrén or Björn Trädgårdh. Produced by Svenskt Tenn in Sweden.   

Diminutive Art Deco rocking chair designed by Eskil Sundahl for Swedish manufacturer SMF Bodafors in the 1930s. Frame made of stained birch with original...

Set of six chairs designed by Josef Frank for Svensk Tenn, Model 725. Sweden. 1938. Mahogany and original leather. Literature: Kristina Wängberg Eriksson, Jan Christer Eriksson, "Josef Frank Möbelformgivaren", Carlsson Bokförlag, Stockholm 2014, p. K 18 H: 90 cm W: 58 cm D: 63 cm SH: 43 cm Armrest height: 69 cm (at the highest point) Josef Frank was a true European, he was also a pioneer of what would become classic 20th century Swedish design and the “Scandinavian Design Style”. Austrian- born Frank started his design career as an architect after having trained at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna between 1903 and 1910. After his training he went on to teach at Kunstgewerbeschule (The Viennese School of Arts and crafts) where he developed and espoused the new school of modernist thinking towards Architecture and Design that was coming to fruition in Vienna at the time. He also went on to lead the Vienna Werkbund throughout the 1920s. This was a truly progressive group of Architects and Designers who set about improving the daily lives of Austrian people through modernist design and architecture in partnership with Arts and Crafts ideals and construction. Frank’s leadership of the Werkbund had already cemented his place at the forefront of European design. Frank’s time in Vienna was typified by his design for the “Die Wohnung” exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund in Stuttgart, 1927 where he exhibited along side his contemporaries at the forefront of design, such as the likes of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. Here he showed a specially designed pair of flat-roofed reinforced concrete houses in what is now seen as a typical modernist style. What separated Frank’s house from the other 32 houses of the exhibition was the interior and furniture inside the building. It was described as “Neo-Classical” and filled with an eclectic mix of period pieces, modern design and pieces designed by Frank himself that seemed to cross the two worlds. This was a complete opposite direction to that which his fellow Architects were travelling in with their pared back and angular aesthetics. Frank said of his own work: “The house is not a work of art, simply a place where one lives,” and by this reasoning Frank rejected the regimental mechanisation of the living space that his contemporaries believed in, instead he set about creating congenial and spontaneous interiors. Frank’s practice saw him placing the bright colours and the soft forms of nature back into the furnishings and interiors that he thought modernism sorely mist. Frank, along with Oskar Walch set up Haus und Garten in Vienna in 1925. This was Frank’s first commercial foray into furniture and home furnishings and the company went on to become the most influential furnishing house in Vienna with a riotous depth of colour and interesting shapes becoming the trademark of their design. However this success was to come to an end with rise of Nazism in Vienna in the early 1930’s. Frank was Jewish, and he and his wife Anna decided they would leave Vienna for her motherland: Sweden, in 1933. Frank continued to design for Haus and Garten, visiting Vienna occasionally and designing the pieces that would continue to be the company’s best...

Luxurious, voluminous sofa in an inviting, curved shape with mustard yellow upholstery. In the style of Otto Schulz. Seat height 43 cm.

Lovely ivory white velvet easy chairs by Otto Schulz, Boet, Sweden, 1930s. Reupholstred and restored, excellent condition. Global shipping: USD 499.     

Rare wingback easy chair designed in 1935 by Frits Henningsen. Produced by cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen in Denmark

Rare wooden "Utö" dining chair in stained pine designed by Axel Einar Hjorth produced by Nordiska Kompaniet Sweden, 1932. In good vintage condition acquired from the original owner....

Rare pair of Skoga pine stools / side tables designed by Axel-Einar Hjorth, 1930s. Produced by Nordiska Kompaniet.

Set of 4 available. Produced by Nordiska Kompaniet, 1930s.

Rare and big curved sofa by unknown designer. Produced in Denmark.

A pair of stools with low back, in leather, brass nails and steel. Designed by Gunnar Asplund. These are manufactured circa 1980s. Measures: Hei...

Very rare pair of chairs designed by Erik Chambert in 1937 and produced by his own company AB Chamberts Möbelfabrik. Frame made of ash with cane seat. This exact model was displayed ...