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Hidden gems and personal favourites – Auctionet's specialists present a handpicked selection of the most exciting objects right now. |
Hidden gems and personal favourites – Auctionet's specialists present a handpicked selection of the most exciting objects right now. |
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Andreas Siesing, Author, Design Lover and Specialist at Auctionet |
A Deep Dive
With Andreas Siesing |
4020937. Chest of drawers, Swedish Grace, veneered with birch and mahogany, brass fittings, branded Upsala Möblerings AB. |
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A Deep Dive
With Andreas Siesing |
4020937. Chest of drawers, Swedish grace, veneered with birch and mahogany, brass fittings, branded Upsala Möblerings AB. |
Do you remember Kaross-Nisse? A few years ago he appeared in a Friday email. He worked at the interior design firm Myrstedt & Stern, decorated the Operabaren but then changed tracks and in 1934 he came to manufacture a specially designed bus for Svenska Automobiltrafik AB. Google it! Looks like a sluggish spaceship in a Cadillac suit. This week he is back. This is because he was involved in forming Upsala Möblerings AB in 1910. The initiator was Carl W Svensson who left a job as a foreman in Nyköping to realize his dream of furniture and interior design under his own management. He succeded and the company came to deliver furniture and interiors to private homes and institutions in Uppsala. But also in Stockholm. Despite the war and the worldwide financial crash, the business grew. At first there were seven, at most during the 1930s Upsala Möblerings AB had around forty employees.
It is from that time that Stockholms Auktionsverk has acquired the chest of drawers in honey-colored birch that is on hammer sale this weekend. It was manufactured in 1937 and we know this because it is marked with the company's exemplary informative branding stamp. |
| It is unusual for furniture from that time to be dated by year. Unless it is an item from Nordiska Kompaniet or by Carl Malmsten and some other highly respected people, then it is necessary to be more precise than a qualified guess.
It is also at this time that Upsala Möblerings AB is at its peak. The workforce decreases in the following years. After the Second World War, the company is down to 20 people, in 1949 Carl W Svensson dies and at the turn of the year 1954/55 the company closes. By then, time has run out for interior design companies, their services have been replaced by flat packages and mass-produced models at completely different prices. But if you need a well-formed period document to put your bakelite radio on, I can hardly think of anything more suitable than this piece of craftsmanship from Uppsala in 1937.
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Andreas Siesing, Author, Design Lover and Specialist at Auctionet |
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Do you remember Kaross-Nisse? A few years ago he appeared in a Friday email. He worked at the interior design firm Myrstedt & Stern, decorated the Operabaren but then changed tracks and in 1934 he came to manufacture a specially designed bus for Svenska Automobiltrafik AB. Google it! Looks like a sluggish spaceship in a Cadillac suit. This week he is back. This is because he was involved in forming Upsala Möblerings AB in 1910. The initiator was Carl W Svensson who left a job as a foreman in Nyköping to realize his dream of furniture and interior design under his own management. He succeded and the company came to deliver furniture and interiors to private homes and institutions in Uppsala. But also in Stockholm. Despite the war and the worldwide financial crash, the business grew. At first there were seven, at most during the 1930s Upsala Möblerings AB had around forty employees.
It is from that time that Stockholms Auktionsverk has acquired the chest of drawers in honey-colored birch that is on hammer sale this weekend. It was manufactured in 1937 and we know this because it is marked with the company's exemplary informative branding stamp. It is unusual for furniture from that time to be dated by year. Unless it is an item from Nordiska Kompaniet or by Carl Malmsten and some other highly respected people, then it is necessary to be more precise than a qualified guess.
It is also at this time that Upsala Möblerings AB is at its peak. The workforce decreases in the following years. After the Second World War, the company is down to 20 people, in 1949 Carl W Svensson dies and at the turn of the year 1954/55 the company closes. By then, time has run out for interior design companies, their services have been replaced by flat packages and mass-produced models at completely different prices. But if you need a well-formed period document to put your bakelite radio on, I can hardly think of anything more suitable than this piece of craftsmanship from Uppsala in 1937.
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FRANS TIMÉN
Estimate:
1 500 SEK |
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THERESIA HVORSLEV
Estimate:
1 600 SEK |
| UNKNOWN ARTIST
Estimate:
1 800 SEK |
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Ceramics Nerd, Star Wars Enthusiast
and Specialist at Auctionet |
Engraving glass is a fascinating and time-consuming craft. Every time I see one of the magnificent pieces from Orrefors and Kosta, especially from the 1920s/30s, I am impressed by the incredible skill of the engraver. One of these skilled engravers was Tage Cronqvist, who worked at Kosta. Here he has signed an unusual purple vase from 1936 with a decoration of a dancing woman. If you search for his name on digitaltmuseum.se, a cool picture will appear where he inspects a vase he is in the process of engraving.
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Ceramics Nerd, Star Wars Enthusiast
and Specialist at Auctionet |
Engraving glass is a fascinating and time-consuming craft. Every time I see one of the magnificent pieces from Orrefors and Kosta, especially from the 1920s/30s, I am impressed by the incredible skill of the engraver. One of these skilled engravers was Tage Cronqvist, who worked at Kosta. Here he has signed an unusual purple vase from 1936 with a decoration of a dancing woman. If you search for his name on digitaltmuseum.se, a cool picture will appear where he inspects a vase he is in the process of engraving.
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TAGE CRONQVIST
Estimate:
2 000 SEK |
| SNUFF HOUND
Estimate:
6 500 SEK |
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CUPBOARD, 19TH CENTURY
Estimate:
2 000 SEK |
| WILHELM KÅGE
Estimate:
1 500 SEK |
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| Seasoned Auction Veteran and
Co-Founder of Auctionet |
Eric H Olson was a self-taught artist who initially devoted himself to a fairly classical style of painting. He painted landscape motifs but over time became more non-figurative and modern and towards the end of the 1940s he had switched completely to planar geometric motifs that sometimes appear at auction. But what he became most famous for, not only in Sweden but also internationally, are the sculptures that he made in glass and plexiglass in a special technique that he even received a patent for in 1958. Today, these sculptures are sought-after collector's items and his sculptures are represented in a number of different collections and in museums around the world. Not least at the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.
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Seasoned Auction Veteran and
Co-Founder of Auctionet |
Eric H Olson was a self-taught artist who initially devoted himself to a fairly classical style of painting. He painted landscape motifs but over time became more non-figurative and modern and towards the end of the 1940s he had switched completely to planar geometric motifs that sometimes appear at auction. But what he became most famous for, not only in Sweden but also internationally, are the sculptures that he made in glass and plexiglass in a special technique that he even received a patent for in 1958. Today, these sculptures are sought-after collector's items and his sculptures are represented in a number of different collections and in museums around the world. Not least at the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.
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ERIC H. OLSON
Estimate:
20 000 SEK |
| JENS FÄNGE
Estimate:
10 000 SEK |
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SECRETARY, 18TH CENTURY
Estimate:
6 000 SEK |
| CHEST OF DRAWERS, 18TH CENTURY
Estimate:
12 000 SEK |
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