The Mirakel pattern, designed by Josef Frank in the late 1920s.

*Top,* furniture by Frank, in 1985; *above,* an installation of Frank’s designs representing Svenskt Tenn at the New York World’s Fair, 1939.

The Primavera pattern, by Frank, circa 1925.

*Top, Mexico,* an installation at the Svenskt Tenn store, in Stockholm, by Karin Södergren and Cilla Ramnek, 2014; *above,* Fawn Bookends 2290, by Estrid Ericson, 1934–36.

Trivet Triton, by Luke Edward Hall for Svenskt Tenn, 2022.

A Frank cabinet (1930–50), reproduced with a historical map of Stockholm for Svenskt Tenn’s centennial, 2024.

Tenn out of Tenn

Svenskt Tenn, the Stockholm-based design company shaped by Estrid Ericson and Josef Frank, celebrates its centennial with an archival coffee-table book

Svenskt means “Swedish.” Tenn means “pewter.” Put them together and you get Sweden’s most storied design company, Svenskt Tenn.

The company dates to the 1920s, when Stockholm was teeming with money and artists, untouched by the First World War. Sonia Delaunay’s abstractions were hanging in the Nya Konstgalleriet. Kandinsky’s work was on view at Gummesons Konsthandel. And other galleries were showcasing French painters, Cézanne and Matisse among them.