CURATED COLLECTIBLES

SET OF NILS JONSSON CHAIRS

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A set of six mid-century modern Swedish chairs by Nils Jonsson, made of solid Walnut. Each chair measures 34.5” H x 20” W x 18” D. Nils Josef Jonsson (1890-1963), cartoonist, was born on 13 December 1890 at Halmstad, Sweden, eldest of three sons of Carl Alfred Jönsson, a blacksmith turned farmer, and his wife Augusta Bernhardina, née Karlsdotter. As a lad he worked behind a plough on a neighbour’s farm and at 18 went to sea.