{ "data": { "id": 375743, "accession_number": "2020.69", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Cabinet on Stand (2030), c. 1948. Josef Frank (Swedish, born Austria, 1885\u20131967), Svenskt Tenn (Swedish, est. 1924). Mahogany, mahogany veneer, brass; overall: 125 x 69 x 37 cm (49 3/16 x 27 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund, 2020.69", "current_location": null, "title": "Cabinet on Stand (2030)", "creation_date": "c. 1948", "creation_date_earliest": 1943, "creation_date_latest": 1953, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "Sweden" ], "technique": "Mahogany, mahogany veneer, brass", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Furniture", "type": "Furniture and woodwork", "measurements": "Overall: 125 x 69 x 37 cm (49 3/16 x 27 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "overall": { "height": 1.25, "height_inch": 49, "height_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "width": 0.69, "width_inch": 27, "width_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "depth": 0.37, "depth_inch": 14, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5625 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "(Bukowski\u2019s, Stockholm, October 1998, Lot 1234, sold to Private Owner)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1998", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "Private Collection", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1998\u20132019", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "(Christie's, New York, NY, December 13, 2019, Lot 156, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2019", "sortorder": 3 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "2019\u2013", "sortorder": 4 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "As a modern adaptation of an earlier form, this cabinet typifies the principles of Swedish Modern design.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Mid-20th-century designers of household furnishings looked both to the past for inspiration and the present for practicality. In Sweden, designer Josef Frank modeled his cabinet on stand after earlier Renaissance cabinets lifted high on elaborately carved bases. Frank made the form as simple as possible in order to feature the beauty of the wood itself and the whimsy of his assymetrically placed drawers.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117244309" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Zahle, Erik. A Treasury of Scandinavian Design; [the Standard Authority on Scandinavian-Designed Furniture, Textiles, Glass, Ceramics, and Metal]. New York: Golden Press, 1963.", "page_number": "p. 90, fig 32", "url": null } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.69", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "James Parmelee Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 375743, "creators": [ { "id": 317228, "description": "Josef Frank (Swedish, born Austria, 1885\u20131967)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "designer", "biography": "Born to a Jewish family in Baden, Austria, Josef Frank was an architect and designer who came of age in pre-war Vienna. He graduated from the Technische Hochschule (Polytechnic) in 1910 and taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) until the mid-1920s. An associate of the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte, Frank founded his own interior design firm Haus & Garten in 1925 with Oskar Wlach (1881-1963) and Walter Sobotka (1888-1972). During this venture Frank wrote several design treatises including Architektur als Symbol (1931). Frank married Anna Sebenius, a Swedish woman, in 1912 and in 1933 began designing for the Stockholm-based interior design company Svenkst Tenn. Although he immigrated to Sweden and adopted Swedish citizenship in 1938, Frank spent World War II in the United States teaching at the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1946 Frank returned to Sweden, continuing work with Svenkst Tenn until his death in 1967. Frank is considered to be one of the pioneers of Swedish modern design and the \u201cScandinavian Style.\u201d", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1885", "death_year": "1967", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": true, "weight": 1 }, { "id": 317397, "description": "Svenskt Tenn (Swedish, est. 1924)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "manufacturer", "biography": "Founded by Estrid Ericson in 1924, the Stockhlm studio and shop Svenskt Tenn (Swedish Tin) originally specialized in pewterware. After the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930, Ericson restructured the firm as a furnishings company specializing in the functionalist design exhibited at the fair. In 1933 Ericson hired the Austrian architect and designer Josef Frank to be the firm\u2019s chief designer, allowing her to focus on the company\u2019s business matters. Svenskt Tenn is still operating in Stockholm.", "name_in_original_language": null, "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 2 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2020-03-02T00:00:00-05:00", "sortable_date": 1943, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1948", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:54:06.288000" } }