Hello all. Found this desk at a local thrift today. Seem i cant find any more info about this company. Pretty cool teak and metal base. Has tubular base with wood pegs at end.
Also found this cool record cabinet but no makers mark. Again teak wood with metal square legs with wood leg insert. Bought thw rwcird cabinet but left the desk for now. They wanted $150 for the desk besides i dont have room in my place at.the moment.
Record cabinet was decent priced at $40. Thanks.
Domingo
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The desk label says Office Furniture Series - Patent Pending, in Swedish. Never heard of Afors!
I like the record cabinet. You hardly ever see these that aren't the later, more boring styled ones. I think it's a good buy, and surely you can think of stuff to store in record slots if you don't own any LPs. Large books! Skinny vases. Vintage Chinese checkers games.
If you think about it Domingo, the desk you encountered (regardless of pedigree) at the thrift store for $150 is most likely made of real wood while this one at Walmart for $177.00 has digital wood grain or something. And if you take care of that $150 desk well, it will most likely be the only desk you will be buying and own for a very long time.
Also, if you are on the unconventional side like me, I re-purposed a 1950s Knoll double pedestal desk (similar in style as the desk you saw) as a kitchen island/table using the deep file drawers to store pots and pans and the shallow drawers for flatware and other utensils and the overhanging top for eating.
Those are the feet to the desk. They didn't account for wood shrinkage in the hot dry air of Tucson. So they fell out.
I am rather curious if you pull off one of the feet on the record cabinet what it looks like. Obviously the person who designed the record cabinet knew how to account for wood movement so the feet would stay in.
On Deconet:
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Åfors
Sweden
Company was established in 1900 in Blomstermåla, Sweden and the production of the high quality furniture is done since then. Åfors´s furniture pieces are designed by Carl Malmsten, Josef Frank or Nirvan Richter.
- See more at: http://www.deconet.com/decopedia/maker/%C3%85fors-id-19#sthash.FWLix44C.dpu
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THere's an Afors glassworks that made art glass but not sure that's related at all. They shut down in 2013.
There's also this interesting cabinet designed by Folke Fribyter for Åfors, 1955:
http://www.pamono.com/cabinet-by-folke-fribyter-for-afors-1955
They appear to still be around, too--or maybe this is a different one? This is listed on "Europages" (?)"
ÅFORS MÖBLER AB
Supplier of: Furniture, household | Cabinets and cupboards | Seats and lounge suites
Blomstermåla - SWEDEN
Wikipedia entry for Åfors, the community: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85fors
OOO, here's a book!
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Carl Malmsten.
of OF FURNITURE AFORS AB.
Carl Malmsten a prominent figure in SWEDISH FURNITURE culture. AT A survey of 2,000 people in 1992 proved not less than 47% KNOW Carl Malmsten. HE IS OUR MOST most famous furniture designers. SIX-page booklet with illustrations on every page. VERY INTERESTING inspiring and instructive reading. Tryckår 1992. Number 6. Dimensions 21x23 cm. Weight 26 grams. FURNITURE-SIGNATURE FROM Åfors furniture is in very good condition.
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Anyway. That's a start. You should probably google Åfors, not Afors---the Å is a different letter than A, not just an A with a marking. Google is pretty good about including Å results when you just search for A, but it can't hurt to use the real spelling.
Domingo, now you need to source one of these for your super cool record cabinet. Goodwill sold me my 1974 Bang & Olufsen receiver for $8 (a long time ago) day after christmas, they thought it was a non working Atari video game console that they could not find the on/of switch. Also, if anyone ever wonder why turntables/record players have a clear plastic top cover, blame it on Hans Gugelot's 1957 Braun SK5 also known as "Snow White's Coffin".
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