Svante Skogh table Seffle Mobelfarik Teak Sweden 1960

Johannes Andersen teak coffee table for Trensum; tabletop built on a sculpted stand, made of teak, mahogany and walnut woods and produced by Trensum in Sweden during the 1960s. Two d...

Beautiful teak side table by Severin Hansen for Haslev. Made in Sweden around 1957 Good condition

A rectangular, vintage Mid-Century modern Swedish coffee, sofa table made of hand crafted polished Teakwood, designed by Svante Skogh and produced by Seffle in good condition. The Sc...

From the Annika series. 1950's. Stamped. Patinated wood. As the descendant of four generations of Swedish master cabinetmakers, Bruno Mathsson was born to design furniture. Mathsson was known as a methodical perfectionist who made usefulness the fundamental attribute of his works, yet he was also a ceaseless experimenter, who constantly searched for improvements in form, materials and methods of making. Like the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto, Mathsson was one of the first Scandinavians to embrace undulating, biomorphic forms in furniture. His early pieces such as the Eva and Pernilla series of chairs incorporate dramatically flowing bent beechwood frames, making them some of the most instantly recognizable works of 20th-century design. Mathsson was also a pioneer of ergonomics — he is said to have based the contours of his chairs on the impression his body made when he sat in a snow bank — and used supple, accommodating woven webbing for seats. His concern for practicality is shown by pieces such as the Maria table. An elegant design with gate legs and hinged leaves, the table measures more than nine feet long when fully extended, but folds down to just nine inches in thickness. From the mid-1940s through the 1950s, Mathsson focused on architecture, designing and building houses with insulated, triple-glazed window walls...