Drop-Front Desk
Design: Josef Frank
Svenskt Tenn, Stockholm
designed c.1930
Sveden, 1940s
mahogany, brass
Drop-front desk with three locking drawers, brass fittings.
W 43 ¼" / H 40 ⅛" / D 19 ⅝"
W 110 cm / H 102 cm / D 50 cm
W 110 cm / H 102 cm / D 50 cm
Frank developed the design based on historical examples and used the model in his double house at the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart (1927) as well as the interior design of his contribution to the Viennese Werkbundsiedlung (1930).
Literature:
Nina Stritzler-Levine, editor, Josef Frank, Architect and Designer: An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home (New York: 1996), p. 144 and p. 178.
Nina Stritzler-Levine, editor, Josef Frank, Architect and Designer: An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home (New York: 1996), p. 144 and p. 178.
Nr.: ST4531