'Flora' Cabinet, Model No. 852, designed circa 1937

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JOSEF FRANK (1885-1967)
'Flora' Cabinet, Model No. 852, designed circa 1937
manufactured by Svenskt Tenn, Stockholm
mahogany, lithograph printed paper, brass
55 3/16 x 45 1/2 x 16 15⁄16 in. (140.1 x 115.6 x 43 cm)

Provenance

Antik / Hostler Burrows, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004

Literature

N. Stritzler-Levine, ed., Josef Frank, Architect and Designer An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home, exh. cat., The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, 1996, p. 71 (for a related example)
C. Long, Josef Frank: Life and Work, Chicago, 2002, p. 235 (for a period photograph of a related example)
C. Thun-Hohenstein, H. Czech, et. al., Josef Frank: Against Design, The Architect's Anti-Formalist Oeuvre, exh. cat. Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 2016, p. 310

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Lot Essay

The exterior is adorned with illustrations from Danish botanist Carl Hansen Ostenfeld's Bilder ur Nordens Flora (1905). Ostenfeld served as the director of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden and taught botany at the University of Copenhagen. An avid explorer, Ostenfeld traveled outside of Denmark to explore flora and fauna in Iceland, Greenland, the British Isles, Ireland, and Australia.

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