I did not get a table but am super happy and enamored with the six chairs. I sanded down some parts and it is all cherry. Again, beautiful design. requisite articulations. Smacks of Hans Wegner, Borge Mogenson... Can't wait to sand the cherry clean again! Not to mention, very difficult to get these chairs apart.
I don't see the resemblance to anything that Wegner or Mogensen designed (not that i know their work completely!) but I do see a strong link to Folke Palsson's J77 chair---which is a variation on the classic Windsor chair. Ercol of the UK made something similar and there are currently a lot of relatively inexpensive new chairs on the market with the look. I've always really liked it. (Still kind of kicking myself for passing up one in Goodwill for $3 years ago because I didn't need another stray chair at the time, and it had an awful paint job.)
Nice work on the refinishing!
These remind me of Ilmari Tapiovaara designed chairs more than anything. I believe he was the first to come out with a back spindle design like this on the Mademoiselle chair, and a number of other variants after. Not as famous as his fellow Finn, Aalto Alvar, but did some great work in his own right. I have an ebonized "Dr No" rocker (sans the rocker which I think was cut off, but for 15 bucks you dont complain about these things), with caned back. Really a beautiful chair.... https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/rocking-chairs/rare-finnish-19...
What I find most satisfying about beautiful things; their inherent approximations. The seamless, collaborative calibrations the mind organically takes in, relieves me. I appreciate everything you've all said. When my terribly abstract mind sees something born of good form, I'm certain it's the closest and most immediate way to happiness.
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