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Hayno Focken hammered brass box, Art Deco, Germany
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A hand hammered brass box, designed by Hayno Focken. Focken, along with Karl Raichle and Harald Buchrucker were three of the most important metals craft designers in the decades before and after World War II. Focken's work, according to the Brohan Museum's catalogue, was especially popular in the 1950s. At that time he employed 26 workers in his shop. His enterprise, however, was always quite small and everything was produced by hand. Focken is perhaps best known for his exquisite sense of proportion and his devotion to the concept that "form follows function." Focken studied his craft at the famous school, Burg Giebichenstein. The lid of the box is decorated with a motif which Focken often used. One can see the profound influence of the Bauhaus School on his work and also that of his contemporaries, Buchrucker and Raichle. The sides of the box are very delicately hammered, almost as to be inperceptible. I have tried to capture in some of the photographs this subtlety, but the effect is not fully reflected in those pictures. The box is in excellent condition. T are no dings are dents. T are a few tiny spots of corrosion which will polish out. The smudges result from my own rather clumsy polishing effort. The box mesaures Eleven [ 11.00 ] inches [ 28 cms.] by Three & Three-Quarters [ 3. 75 ] inches [10 cms.]. It is Three & One-Half [ 3.50 ] inches in height [ 9 cms.]. Focken always used a heavy gauge of brass; so the box is heavy for its size. Brass was his favorite material, though he also designed silverware. The piece is well marked on the bottom with Focken's signet, a monogram ligature "HF."So far as dating the box, I would note that it says "Made In Germany." This leads me to think that it dates to the 1930s. Focken's workshop was closed during the war since he had been drafted into the army. After the war, pieces were generally marked "Made in Western Germany," or "Made in West Germany."
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