Dish, Play of the Winds, Guldsmedsaktiebolaget (GAB), Stockholm 1949, silver and bakelite.

Carl Milles, Guldsmedsaktiebolaget (GAB)

Diameter: 12 cm. Gun and Isidor Andersson from Täby were a formidable pair in the art of living life and filling it with beauty. One might say that one had the recipe for an appealingly beautiful home and the other knew how to build it. Gun was a pharmacist before, as a housewife, she took care of their four children and eventually began working at Stockholm Auktionsverk, in the receiving of all auctioned items. Isidor trained as a civil engineer at KTH, worked for JM and founded the real estate company Besqab in 1989. Both had an eye for and a way with antiques. Gun personally renovated a complete Gustavian dining room suite and was very interested in silver and what the hallmarks could tell about objects. Isidor had a talent for really focusing on and wanting to delve deeply into the themes he became passionate about. Such as soup spoons. And Sámi craftsmanship. And Einar Norelius's artistry. And hats. Wherever he traveled in the world with family, friends, at work or with any of the many associations he was involved in, he brought home a hat. It amounted to 150 pieces that testify to different countries' cultures. Every Saturday, the viewing at the Auktionsverk was a given destination. The family's car vacations tended to include quite a bit of farm auctions, flea markets, churches and statues. When Gun and Isidor took pictures of themselves in London, the backdrop was neither Piccadilly Circus nor Madame Tussauds wax museum, but the auction house Sotheby's premises. The villa in Viggbyholm and later the apartment in Gribbylund were a social hub. Gun and Isidor were the perfect hosts for countless parties and dinners. He excelled at writing songs and playing the fiddle. She greatly enjoyed the creativity in matching and arranging, setting the table and presenting things in different ways. They