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At Galerie 56, New York 12.10 - 28.11

Garden of Celestial Delights

30 June to 6 July - Stand 321

Masterpiece London 2022

May 5-10th

TEFAF NEW YORK 2022

GARDEN OF CELESTIAL DELIGHTS

Svenskt Tenn

Painted pine, mahohgany with mahogany finger plates and handles.

Comissioned circa 1940 for a villa just outside Stockholm. 

Please see ref. no. 181003 for a cabinet with secretaire from the same commission.

Furniture

Sideboard

Glass frame executed in the 'corosso' technique, scalloped brass, mirrored glass.

Various

Mirror

Boet

Limed oak, leatherette, 'Bo-point decoration' with brass nails in the motif of 'Adam and Eve', designed by Gunnar Erik Ström.
Branded 'Boet'. 

Literature:
Arvid Berghman (ed.), 'Magazine Boet', Göteborg 1945, p. 64, p. 70.
Hedvig Hedqvist, Christian Björk, Eric Ericson, 'Swedish Modern', p.512.

History:
The decoration on the 'Paradise' cabinet was executed by Gunnar Erik Ström (1892-1982), painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and sculptor. Gunnar Ström decorated, among other things, the main restaurant for the Gothenburg exhibition in 1923, and the following year was comissioned to paint the ceiling in the Hotel Palace in Gothenburg. Other major commissions included the mirror paintings for the ocean liners M/S Kungsholm (1928) and M/S Stockholm (1948).

'Paradise' Cabinet

Gustaf Fjaestad

Solid pine. Deeply carved and sculpted in relief from a single section of a tree. 
Engraved with the artists initials and dated '19 GF 03'.

Provenance: 
Acquired directly from the Artist 
Thence by descent

GARDEN OF CELESTIAL DELIGHTS

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