Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard Bust Northen European

Northen European

5cm thick rectangular Glass top resting on a pair of old Carved Stone Corthinian Capitals

Of Rectangular form with cantered corners

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

yoke back rest

Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard Bust Northen EuropeanPaul 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