Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard Bust Victorian red lacquer papier-mâché tray

Victorian red lacquer papier-mâché tray of rectangular proportions with nicely scalloped edges

Northen European

The artist’s stated intent was to paint for ‘everyone’

before Thonet voluntarily waived patent rights in 1869

yoke back rest

Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard Bust Victorian red lacquer papier-mâché trayPaul Kafka is one of the most significant furniture makers to have worked in Sydney in the immediate post war period. Born in Vienna in 1907, the son of a Viennese furniture maker, he worked in his father's factory and later studied furniture design and interior decoration at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. In 1939 Kafka and his wife emigrated to Australia and established a furniture making factory, first in Elizabeth Street, Sydney and by the late