Modernist desk
Designer
Margaret Köhler
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Futurum
Origin
Sweden
Year
1938
Design Museum Section
Swedish Design Icons
Designed by Women
Categories
Desks, Secretaries
Designheroes ID
85292
Auction House
Bukowskis
Headquarter
Stockholm, Sweden
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Modern Art + Design 632
Sale Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Modernist desk
Veneered with macassar ebony
Futurum, Stockholm 1938
110 x 60 cm, height 74 cm, total height including centrepiece with two drawers 86,5 cm.
Catalog essay
The interior design company "Futurum" was one of the many interior design companies that started business in Sweden post the 1930 Stockholm exhibition. Futurum was founded in 1934 by Margareta Köhler and Marie-Louise Idestam-Blomberg. The philosophy for their business was based upon the modernistic, or if you wish functionalistic, ideals that were introduced at the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition. The furniture should not be put in an interior for merely decorative purposes but based upon the client's actual needs and designed with their function as a major target.
Margareta Köhler was the main designer of the furniture produced by Futurum. Their aim was to create an unity with the furniture, textiles, lighting etc. Despite really good reviews from both clients and critics, Futurum had to shut down the business in 1941 due to financial problems.
Margareta Köhler was the main designer of the furniture produced by Futurum. Their aim was to create an unity with the furniture, textiles, lighting etc. Despite really good reviews from both clients and critics, Futurum had to shut down the business in 1941 due to financial problems.
Literature
Sigrid Eklund Nyström, "Möbelarkitekt på 1930-talet - Om inredningsfirman FUTURUM och hur en ny yrkesgrupp etablerar sig", Nordiska museets handlingar 112, Uddevalla 1992, see the drawing with the desk placed in the interior of the Müller-Lapidus' appartment, Baltzar von Platens gata 6 in Stockholm, pp 284-285.
Provenance
The desk was executed as a part of a complete interior by Futurum for Dr Sten Lapidus and his wife's, Dr Hedvig Müller-Lapidus, first appartment at Baltzar von Platens gata 6 in Stockholm 1938. The table that was placed in the livingroom could be used both as a desk and, without the centrepiece, as an additional dinner table.
Object
Modernist desk
Designer
Margaret Köhler
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Futurum
Origin
Sweden
Year
1938
Design Museum Section
Swedish Design Icons
Designed by Women
Categories
Desks, Secretaries
Designheroes ID
85292
Auction House
Bukowskis
Headquarter
Stockholm, Sweden
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Modern Art + Design 632
Sale Location
Stockholm, Sweden
