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JOSEF FRANK; Austria
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designed circa 1949, retailed by Svenskt Tenn, Stockholm, mahogany, printed paper
30in. (76cm.) height; 51½in. (131cm.) width; 17in. (43cm.) depth

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Lot Essay

Cf: Nina Stretzler-Levine, Josef Frank, Architect and Designer, an Alternative Vision of the Modern Home, New York, 1996, p.272, no.122a (the model illustrated)

Austrian architect and designer Frank was a leading figure in Central-European Modernism, participating in the Weissenhofsiedlung housing exhibition, Stuttgart, 1927 (lots 47, 51), before being forced to emigrate to Stockholm in 1933.

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