Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard centre table Set around a cylindrical barrel

Set around a cylindrical barrel swivel

This chair was exhibited for the first time at the Exposition Universelle

Height: 79cm Width: 180cm Depth:80cm

The shaped top above a foliate gilded base

Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard centre table Set around a cylindrical barrelPaul 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