32. CHAIRS, a pair, high quality Stockholm works in Rococo, Carl Magnus Sandbergs art, woodcut decor.

Backrest with loose padded tray, bowed frame with rocailles, front sarg with winged shell, legs with rocailles and volutes, volute foot ends with heel, one chair with original finish the other painted in yellow ochre, carved numbering III & IIII, seat height 46 cm

LOCATION: Västanfors herrgård, Västmanland län

LITERATURE: Torsten Sylvén: The Golden Age of Chairs, chairs & chair makers in Sweden 1650 - 1850, Stockholm 2003, 194f, compare chairs by Carl Magnus Sandberg
Bo Vahlne: Frihetstidens interiningar på Stockholms Slott - On the Levels of Comfort and Beauty, Stockholm 2012, page 277, compare chairs in Stockholm Castle commissioned in 1760

The beautifully cut backrest chairs probably originated among the high class seating furniture produced at the castle workshop in connection with the works for King's House and Stockholm Castle around the middle of the 18th century. Early Swedish seating furniture in French-inspired Rococo had a powerfully sculpted decor, with a three-dimensional character, which as it became more diffused in the second half of the 18th century. The summoned French ornament sculptors executed various types of seating furniture, which were then copied by the sculptors of the castle. The new generation of domestic chair-makers, who grew up in the wake of castle construction, relatively quickly abandoned the distinctive Continental Rococo style to work in a more pre-Swedish variant of Rococo.