Svenskt Tenn's classic trays in birch veneer are available in a number of prints by Josef Frank and Estrid Ericson, including Rox & Fix.
Rox & Fix shows mountain silhouettes and uses contours that draw the eye deeper and deeper into the pattern. This design approach is common within Chinese art, and it was a visit to the Chinese section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that inspired Josef Frank to the design. The name is a play upon words where “rocks and figs” became “Rox and Fix”. The print was designed in the beginning of the 1940s, but was printed for the first time in 1994.
This tray size goes together with Svenskt Tenn's tray stand in steel.
Designer
Josef Frank/Svenskt Tenn
Svenskt Tenn developed this design using Josef Frank's print.
Josef Frank grew up in Vienna and studied architecture at Technische Hochschule (the Vienna University of Technology) in 1903 – 1908. In the 1920s he designed housing estates and large residential blocks built around common courtyards in a Vienna with severe housing shortages. In 1925, he founded the Haus & Garten interior firm together with architect colleague Oskar Wlach. Svenskt Tenn hired Josef Frank in 1934 and just a few years later he and Estrid Ericson made their international breakthrough. Although he was already 50 when he left the burgeoning Nazism in Vienna for Sweden, Frank is considered one of Sweden’s most important designers. Read More