Live Auction 156520/21 Design
POUL HUNDEVAD (1917-2011)
Lot 272

POUL HUNDEVAD (1917-2011)

A PAIR OF 'GULDHØJ' FOLDING STOOLS, CIRCA 1955

Closed4 November 2014

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GBP 3,250

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POUL HUNDEVAD (1917-2011)
A PAIR OF 'GULDHØJ' FOLDING STOOLS, CIRCA 1955
leather and wenge
15 in. (38 cm.) high; 19 in. (48 cm.) wide; 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) deep
printed paper label to underside

Specialist note

Hundevad reinterpreted this form from a stool, circa 1300 BC, the oldest known example of Danish furniture, discovered in an archeological excavation in Vamdrup, Denmark.
Examples of the present lot were exhibited, The Arts of Denmark, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1960.