Lot 250
Model-309 Cabinet
Peter Hvidt & Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen (Denmark)
1956
Teak
166(W) x 48(D) x 87(H) cm
Estimate
TWD 190,000-280,000
HKD 49,000-73,000
USD 6,300-9,300
Sold Price
TWD 216,000
HKD 56,250
USD 7,195
+ OVERVIEW
Hvidt & Mølgaard was a Copenhagen-based, Danish design and architectural firm which existed from 1944 until 2009. Founded by Peter Hvidt (1916-1986) and Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen (1907-1993), the company was a pioneering force in Danish furniture design and industrialized production in the 1950s, creating furniture that was easy to mass-produce and economic to transport. Model-309 Cabinet is one of this duo designers classical works among their sideboard series. Both being architects and craft designers, Hvidt and Mølgaard-Nielsen had the ability to give their works an air of the architecture. The geometric lines and the minimalism style and the deduction of the decorative patterns makes this work a protagonist to the viewers. The Model-309 Cabinet contains the aesthetic of the modernist of architecture, which brings the elevates the work itself out of the simple craft but into another realm of architectural astomophere.
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Ravenel Autumn Auction 2017
Sunday, December 3, 2017, 2:00pm