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Axel Einar Hjorth for Nordiska Kompaniet

Carved Library Table

Sweden, c. 1928

HJORA 01

Description

Burl birch and birch-veneered wood, walnut-veneered wood, birch.

Height: 28.825" - Width: 58.5" - Depth: 31"

Each element of this extraordinary table invites closer inspection. And yet, despite its lush veneers, unusual geometric base, and legs which taper and bulge in a elaborately carved sequence, it’s more than its constituent merits—it is, rather, a singularly cohesive and arresting whole.

Embossed AB NORDISKA KOMPANIET and impressed R33214 - C18444.

Exhibited:
A similar library table (140 cm length) shown on November exhibition of Nordiska
Kompaniet (famous department store of Stockholm) in 1928.

Bibliography:
Christian Björk, Thomas Ekström, & Eric Ericson, Axel Einar Hjorth: Möbelarkitekt,
Stockholm, 2009, p. 63 for a similar example

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