Can anyone help me who made or designed this chair??  

Very unusual. More photos? I wonder if it is a production piece or a handmade piece? Photos of the the parts that we are not supposed to see might be helpful....

Hello Leif

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That is a very interesting mark. And I see that it has a dust cover underneath the seat. Very unusual. The stamped number, is it 109? Any others? That does not look like the sort of thing that would be on a handmade piece. But it looks like fairly low volume, high end production.

I would also guess that it is newer than the 1960s, possibly very new.

I agree, the number is 169. I have one. It looks like a project also because of the different techniques which are used. But the number and the stamp indeed confuses.

I'm guessing it's fairly recent. The dust cover is non-woven synthetic fabric so unless it was replaced later, the chair isn't 50s-60s. But the mark looks like the kind of breezily casual style graphic that became popular in the 90s, meant to look like it was dashed off by hand with brush and some ink.

The weaving looks like the warp and weft strands might be bonded together to make a wide, flat band of 8 strands. Is this the case? Because if it is, then there would be messy cut ends stapled underneath that they wouldn't want showing.

Thank you as well, Spanky. The strands are on hooks by two together.

That sounds like L-nails, which were mostly used on Scandinavian chairs. Could you possibly post a well-focussed closeup photo?

Hello,

This is the best I can do without damaging something. I hope you can see it. It are L nails indeed. I hope it helps.

Best Thijs

Those are L nails.

Yes, those are indeed L-nails. I don't know if these were used outside of Scandinavia--maybe yes if it's late production. I don't have a clue other than that, though.

I'll repost your photos right side up just for convenience.

What is the history of the chair? I think your best bet may be to try to determine something of where it came from so you can narrow down where to look for that mark. I mean, even in the worst case scenario for lack of history, if you found it in the trash, it would be the trash in front of a certain building with certain people in it of certain professions, certain socio-economic background, in a certain neighborhood, and in a certain country.

And based on the colors of the wood it looks possible that it _could_ be cherry and weng̩, but it might help to actually confirm that with some closeups of the wood. Are the pegs of the same wood as the arms?

Thank you both, the pegs are the same wood.