Unique Desk

Macassar ebony. Nickel plated fitments. Height 62cm between floor and the underneath of the desktop. Provenance: Sven Markelius' own home. Later Markelius gave the desk as a gift to artist Vicke Lindstrand. Literature: Svenska Hem, 1932, p. 195 (Sven Markelius' home) and Svenska Hem, 1937, p. 269 (Vicke Lindstrand's home). Tobias Hoffmann, 'Nordic Design; The Response to the Bauhaus', catalogue, Bröhan Museum, 2019, p.130/131, cat.37. Exhibition: 'Nordic Design; The Response to the Bauhaus', Bröhan Museum, Berlin, 2019/2020.