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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