Exotic Veneered Double Pedestal Desk with Glass Top

• Paul Kafka (1907 - 72) -

  Paul Kafka Exclusive Furniture Pty Ltd. of Sydney. Paul Kafka was one of the most significant furniture makers working in Sydney in the immediate post war period. Born in Vienna, Kafka worked in his father's furniture factory later studying furniture design at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. This training and early practice in Vienna in the 1920s and 30s is reflected in references to the Art Deco style which continued to inform his work during the 1950s
  
  

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• desks, period or age - Australian furniture, post 1950 49
• Kafka, Paul (Australia) - mid-century furniture designers and makers (Australia) 13