Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard Bust The corona above a tier

The corona above a tier of five scrolling arms with leaf sconces above five larger scrolling arms and finishing with a large artichoke pendant

Height: 36 Width: 76cm

circa 1970

The top adorned with a gilded and painted flame above a two gilt gadrooned lips clasped with foliage

Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard Bust The corona above a tierPaul 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