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Kaare Klint

Fourteen "Red" Chairs

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Kaare Klint

1888-1954


Fourteen "Red" Chairs

circa 1927

model no. 3758

produced by Rud. Rasmussens Snedkerier, Copenhagen, Denmark

each with original manufacturer's label printed RUD. RASMUSSENS/SNEDKERIER/45 NØRREBROGADE/KØBENHAVN and inscribed with handwritten inventory numbers and with the architect's monogrammed paper label inscribed KK

Cuban mahogany, leather upholstery, brass

Private Collection;

Christie's London, An Adventurous Spirit: An Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation, December 13, 2018, lot 117;

Where acquired by the present collector.

Nyt Tidsskrift For Kunstindustri, no. 1, January 1943, p. 74, fig. 7

Grete Jalk, ed., Dansk Møbelkunst gennem 40 aar, Volume 1: 1927-1936, Copenhagen, 1987, pp. 120 (for a drawing), 121 and 169

Anne-Louise Sommer, Kaare Klint, Aschehoug, Denmark, 2006, p. 30

Arne Karlsen, Danish Furniture Design in the 20th Century, vol. 1, Copenhagen, 2007, cover

Gorm Harkaer, Kaare Klint: Volume 1, Copenhagen, 2010, pp. 229, 234, 239 (for a drawing), 348, 361, 400 and 469

Gorm Harkaer, Kaare Klint: Volume 2, Copenhagen, 2010, pp. 29-30