Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard Bust Height: 66cm Length:29cm Depth: 29cm

Height: 66cm Length:29cm Depth: 29cm

Kutuwulumi Purawarrampatu and Rover Thomas

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

yoke back rest

Showa Period

Paul Kafka (1907 – 1972) Art Deco Sideboard Bust Height: 66cm Length:29cm Depth: 29cmPaul 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