Hi together, I just bought two lounge chairs from a garage sale and I wonder if it's Grete Jalk or not.
I googled the chairs and found two auction sales where the chairs are attributed to Jalk made by France & Son.
I know that auction houses are very often wrong in attributing items, can anybody confirm this attribution?
Thanks for your help!
http://www.lauritz.com/en/auktion/grete-jalk-paar-armlehnsessel-easy-chairs-fuer-france-s/i3031809/
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9156318_grete-jalk-easy-chair-designed-circa-1955-h-66-x-69
I am always suspicious when it comes to Grete Jalk attribution...
Looking at your links, the chairs do not look like the chairs designed by Jalk for France & Son or Poul Jeppesen which are documented in the furniture index. Furthermore, the second link mentions remains of a paper label which is not the way France & Son marked their funiture.
I would say neither Jalk nor France & Son but an actual picture of your chairs and additional details might help.
Here in France, there is a model of easy chairs that is commonly sold as Grete Jalk, even by famous galleries. They are very nice chairs, of really good quality and usually sell for quite a lot of money. They are unmarked and I have never seen any outside of France, where they are not too rare.
I bought one a year ago and made some research. It appears that these chairs are french AND danish. A French company called Fraska (confort FRAncais et design SKAndinave) imported wood and drawings from Denmark but the chairs and the cushions were made here in France.
I mean if the french were doing this kind of things, I don't see a reason why the same wouldn't exist in Germany, USA, etc.
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