6 Svenskt Tenn Textile Placemats - 'Teheran'

Svenskt Tenn’s table mat becomes a beautiful addition to your table setting. The Teheran print makes it perfect for every occasion. The name Teheran (Tehran), as well as the small, radiant flowers in the foreground, indicates that the print is an interpretation of a Persian carpet. The lobed leaves in varying colours are reminiscent of the plant dye colours madder, wild mignonette and indigo. Teheran was designed in the 1940s, but it was printed for the first time in 1991. The placement of the pattern may vary from the one in the picture. NEVER used. Smoke Free and Pet Free home About the designer: Josef Frank grew up in Austria and studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology. During the 1920s he was one of the pioneers of the modernist movement, something that would change as he grew more critical of modern architecture and considered it to be austere and creatively limiting. Modernism emphasised the material, rather than the spiritual, something that Josef Frank was strongly opposed to. Instead, he was inspired by freer, more artistic ideals and developed his own type of modernism where the person, comfort, homeliness, and a vivid use of colours were central.