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mark737
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23/02/2022 6:15 pm  

Okay, now I have an ID request.  Picked up a pair of these yesterday in Texas and image and keyword searches have so far returned only one other example - the pair on the right posted by a California consignment store but the link is dead.  Frames are beech and they're pretty wide at 22"/56cm.  I'm assuming they are not by a well known designer or maker but does anyone have any ideas?  Yugoslavian? And what do you call this arm style? Paddle arms?  Thanks.

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23/02/2022 8:12 pm  

@mark737. Yes: Paddle arms is the word I would use.

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10/03/2022 5:10 am  

@lexi  I took the backrests off today and discovered red "Made in Norway" ink stamps on the stiles.  I did some more searching with this info but still came up empty.  The closest I found were the chairs in the 2nd photo attributed to Adolf Relling & Torbjørn Bekken.  Maybe you or one of your Norwegian friends might have a clue?  

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10/03/2022 10:48 am  

@mark737. Have posted an ID request for your chairs. Hopefully we get an answer.

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14/03/2022 10:09 pm  

@mark737. Unfortunately, so far, no one has  identified the chairs you posted.

There were many smaller furniture makers in Norway and a lot made chairs , so it is probably hard to pin down a manufacturer for yours.

Gustav Bahus, for example, had numerous subcontractors making their designs; some are well known but others were more obscure.

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15/03/2022 12:14 am  

@lexi  Thanks for trying.  I figured it was probably a obscure producer based on the lack of examples online.  I'm sure you or someone on the Norwegian forums will come across it eventually. 


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11/03/2023 7:13 pm  

@mark737. Only 1 year later.

Found this image of your chair. Unfortunately all other furniture on page is named but NOT your chair !

From a publication (2nd image) dated 1958.

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13/03/2023 11:34 pm  

@lexi  Thanks for following up - you have a great memory for these old threads.  


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