Hi,
I have just picked a sweet tea cart by Søborg Møbelfabrik. It is marked with a black and silver sticker with the castle logo and stamped Made in Denmark.
I haven't been able to find it on the furniture index and it is not in the Søborg catalogs published on their Website.
Does anyone here knows the designer? Mogensen or Hvidt / Molgaard?
The cart below is not mine but one of the same model taken from the internet (mien has its original casters).
Many thanks for your help!
Wow! That would be very surprising.
I would be extremely curious to see more documentation on this because it would fit the in-house design with 'secret' designer phenomenon in the Danish furniture industry that I have written about here. I would be curious if Soeborg could confirm my theory that it comes down to who owns the copyright, such that if the company owns the copyright (not the designer), the company can advertise a design credit to itself, to nobody, or to the secret designer.
So far I have not found an example of the phenomenon where the family is still in the business, and can possibly shed more light on how it worked. (Except for Møller with Hovmand-Olsen designing the 55&71).
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