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Kaare Klint | Edvard Kindt-Larsen

Pair of "Mix" Easy Armchairs

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Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Kaare Klint and Edvard Kindt-Larsen

1888-1954 and 1901-1982


Pair of "Mix" Easy Armchairs

circa 1931

model no. 4396

produced by Rud. Rasmussens Snedkerier, Copenhagen, Denmark

each with original manufacturer's label printed RUD.RASMUSSENS/SNEDKERIER/45 NØRREBROGRADE/KØBENHAVN and inscribed 124807 and with the architect's monogrammed paper label inscribed KK

Cuban mahogany, leather upholstery, brass

height 31 ⅛ in.; width 26 in.; depth 32 ¼ in. each

79.1 cm; 66 cm; 81.9 cm

Dansk Møbelkunst, Copenhagen;

Private Collection;

Wright Chicago, October 22, 2015, lot 137;

Where acquired by the present collector.

Nyt Tidsskrift For Kunstindustri, no. 1, January 1943, p. 74, fig. 6

Gorm Harkær, Kaare Klint: Volume 1, Copenhagen, 1988, pp. 361-362 

Gorm Harkær, Kaare Klint: Volume 2, Copenhagen, 1988, p. 32

Arne Karlsen, Danish Furniture Design in the 20th Century, vol. 1, Copenhagen, 2007, pp. 62 (for a drawing) and 63