One of the most common benches in Swedish furniture history and the bench that the common people used indoors for their long trestle tables.
This particular model with baroque-shaped legs of the early 18th century type was one of the most common even into the early 19th century.
The model for our bench comes from the Hedemora Theater, built in 1828, still in use and one of the few preserved rural theaters of the time.
In the 20th century, we have often seen these benches moved out and used as garden benches – the rustic quality means that the bench can stand outdoors.
The baroque bench is just the right length for our percussion table, but could also be useful as a bench in the hall, as a flower bench indoors, or why not as a garden bench?
The bench has a seat board in the form of a single plank and the legs, sawn from one piece, are inserted with continuous tenons and wedges in the seat board. The bench is hand-planed in a contemporary style.
EUR500.59
Gustavian dining room chair of a model that was common in the 1780s and 1790s. The original chair is the work of the chairmaker Melchior Lundberg the Elder, who became a master in Stockholm in 1775 and is considered the foremost of all chairmakers.
The chair has many characteristic details. The rectangular back is a novelty of the 1780s, while the openwork baluster tray with its “keyhole” appears already in the Rococo period. The straight lower part of the tray tells us that the chair must be from the Gustavian era, which had a weakness for more straight and strict forms compared to the Rococo. Also typical are the straight sides, the fluted legs, and the smooth “socks” on the legs at the junction with the footrest. A particularly elegant detail is the slightly trumpet-shaped front legs and the extremely well-cut bunch of grapes on the crest of the back.
The Melchior Lundberg chair is, both as an original and a copy, a piece of unique Swedish craftsmanship history. We dare say that there is not a more well-made chair in Sweden at all!
The chair is completely handmade without any simplifications. No square part is straight. All parts are shaped and do not curve, bend or thin out in any direction. All turning is done by hand using the so-called cut-turn method. All planing, even on the curved and bent parts, is done entirely by hand. The hind legs are made in one piece (!), i.e. the turned part is not mortised and glued together with the square post (as is otherwise the case on so-called 18th century copies). This means that the demands on the joinery in a chair like this are extremely high, both in terms of quality and roughness. The chair is of course assembled with hand-carved wooden dowels and glued with animal glue.
Chairs of this quality were often painted marble white (about 1% green umber), or light oak yellow (about 15% yellow ochre, 30% yellow ochre natural). In our exhibition we have also painted some chairs in mahogany color (100% English red) a common color in the late 18th century. The seats were usually upholstered with black leather or black linseed oil painted linen fabric.
EUR1 001.64
Decorative coat rack based on a 19th century model. Solid pine stand with twelve hand-turned birch hanging knobs. The original hanger is painted dark reddish brown (burnt terra) with carbon black knobs.
EUR563.91
Traditional flower table in the finest pine. Carved by local cabinetmaker and sculptor.
Untreated. Can be painted with linseed oil paint on request.
EUR439.10
Copy of one of our many beautiful flower tables in Gysinge. The original table is from the 1910s in typical simple neo-Gustavian style, painted white, with about a hundred slats and thin tapered legs.
EUR409.49
Handmade folding screen painted with 7% green umber linseed oil paint. A beautiful separator with fabric Gysinge flowers.
The screen consists of four parts and the frame is painted with 7% green umber linseed oil paint.
Painted pine. Height 182 cm. Width per piece 55 cm.
EUR1 092.74
Hat rack modeled after the 1910s. Beveled corners. Profile planed edges. Shelves and brackets of pine. Hat pegs turned from birch.
Untreated pine. Birch hat pegs. Anchor hooks are not included but can be purchased separately.
EUR250.07
Model: Eskilstuna Jernmanufaktur Nr 1108
Period: 1890-1950
A complete hat rack with a length of 1000 mm includes 2 brackets, 3 bars and 3 anchor hooks.
EUR225.47
EUR234.58
We have been inspired by our late Gustavian chair “Bertil Karlsson” to create two stools, one short and one long in the same style. Suitable as an extra chair, as a stool at the foot of the bed, etc. Completely handmade, hand planed and joined with wooden dowels.
EUR332.52
Small, almost circular table after the Gustavian model. The table consists of two halves, which can be paired together, or placed independently. The halves are held together by small hand-forged iron hooks. Because the table is divisible, there are several possible uses: coffee table, window table, flower table, wall table, etc. The table is completely handmade and hand-planed with a profiled edge on the top, round frame and square, tapered legs. The legs are held together by a foot cross. Tables of this type are often painted in light gray or English red.
EUR1 274.94
Newly composed stool/tabourette in the same style and material as the chair of the same name.
Chair Bertil Karlsson History:
A late Gustavian chair that was found broken in the warehouse when Bertil Karlsson’s antique shop in Gamla Gefle changed owners in the 1980s. The chair was probably made around 1800 and is unusually simple with its square front legs – normally they are turned – and with a leather-imitating wooden seat. At the same time, few Bellman chairs – the model is usually called that – are as simply elegant as this one. The original chair was originally painted with mahogany-imitation English red linseed oil paint and with a black seat. Equally common were gray chairs with black seats. Both variants are painted in Nästgårdshuset in Gysinge. The chair is made entirely by hand and all surfaces are hand-planed. The cross in the back has a typical crossing construction (compare the shortcuts on other “copies” on the market) made of two connected parts, and therefore extremely durable. The round rosette in the back cross is carved by sculptors.
EUR218.18
Gysinge’s wooden stove cabinet is a replica of a real stove from Fredriksberg Manor outside Oskarshamn.
It is entirely hand-carved in pine with stove feet of hand-turned birch. The exceptional details include the crown molding, which is hand-planed from a single piece, and of course the frame is joined only by hand-zincing. Everything is thus 18th century in this tiled stove cabinet, which is finally hand-painted with matte linseed oil paint in the same pattern as the tiled stove at Fredriksberg.
EUR8 654.50
Drop-leaf table made of hand-planed, late-grown pine. wide boards. The folding boards are attached with traditional hinges and forged rivets. otherwise, the table is assembled with pins, wooden dowels and locking pins.
Large and solid handmade percussion table. Made after a model around 1800 from Alfta parish in Hälsningland. Unusually intelligent construction with crossing gates that provide comfortable seating around the entire table. The construction together with the solid weight makes the top rest more stable on the base than normal.
Seats 10 people. Dimensions when set up give a length of 174 cm, width 118 cm and height 76 cm. Dimensions when folded, length 41 cm, width 118 cm and height 76 cm.
The original table was originally painted in common blue, but already in the middle of the 19th century it was given a new light gray color, linseed oil paint green umbra 7-15%.
EUR3 179.39
