Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

313 A Danish rosewood crossbanded draw-leaf dining table designed by Hans Wegner the rectangular top with curved sides, above a plain frieze, on X-shaped legs with steel supports, 74cm high, 96,5cmwide, 287cm fully extended ; and a set of ten rosewood and leather chairs including a pair of associated model 43 carvers designed in the 1950s by Erik Kierkegaard for Høng Stolefabrik, each with curved back between angular supports, dished seat, shaped apron, on square-section tapering legs (11) R180 000 - 200 000 *This lot is not suitable for export PROVENANCE Purchased from Mrs Val Barbour by the current owner. Valerie Barbour and her husband travelled regularly from Zimbabwe to Denmark during the 1950s and 1960s to buy furniture for their department store, Barbours, located in Salisbury, Rhodesia. They had met Hans Wegner, the Danish furniture designer, and purchased several of his pieces. This table was a special commission which Wegner made for Valerie Barbour. The design is a stylistic fusion of Wegner’s tables model nos AT-314 and AT-312, both designed for Andreas Tuck, and the JH-570 table, which Wegner designed for Johannes Hansen, this combination making the table unique. 114