Description:

Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, brass wall lamp.

Brass wall lamp with a curved arm and round wall plate, with original fabric shade in a colourful botanical pattern.

Origin: Sweden.
Designer: Josef Frank.
Material: Brass and fabric.
Dimensions: H. 32 cm, D. 28 cm (including shade).
Period: 1960s–1970s.
Condition: Excellent condition with minor signs of wear.

Bio:
Josef Frank (1885–1967) was an Austrian-born architect and designer, born in Baden near Vienna. He moved to Sweden in 1933 and began a long collaboration with Estrid Ericson and Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm. He is known for his colourful textiles with botanical motifs as well as furniture and lamps in a humanist, non-dogmatic modernism.