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cptyyg
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21/12/2017 4:47 am  

This sofa was purchased in the 1960s. It was poorly reupholstered around 1995 and then not used after about 2000.

I think it is Grete Jalk but am not sure.

Does anyone know?
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Spanky
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21/12/2017 12:43 pm  

I believe this is the Vita sofa by Nanna & Jorgen Ditzel, produced by Getama.

Gorgeous piece of furniture.


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21/12/2017 1:15 pm  

Could also be manufactured by S

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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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21/12/2017 5:49 pm  

This sure does appear to be the Ditzel Vita sofa, but it was not made by Getama back in the 1960s.

If it was purchased between 1952 and 1954 it would have been made by Knud Willadsen and one of the Pedersen brothers of PP M


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21/12/2017 7:09 pm  

Do you know btw how long S

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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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21/12/2017 10:51 pm  

No I don't know much about the later history of S


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21/12/2017 11:49 pm  

Oh, This is quite a lot. What can be said about the development of the company in the fifties? They seem to have been among the bigger players with designers like the mentioned, but my understanding is that they Never really made it to the the top category with the likes of Johannes Hansen.

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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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22/12/2017 1:23 am  

Probably the better compare/contrast candidate for S


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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22/12/2017 1:51 am  

I just saw that S


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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22/12/2017 1:56 am  

Also, S


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Herringbone
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22/12/2017 1:08 pm  

Very helpful, thank you, but I'm not quite sure about the comparbility (if there is such a word) with Niels Vodder either. Maybe in terms of quality but maybe not in terms of size. I enclosed two pics of the Willadsen workshop I found, one from a fire in 1945, the other one from before the fire. It was quite a building, Niels Vodder's workshop on the other hand used to be locatet in a normal residencial building in Copenhagen at least until 1956. That makes me think that Vodder up to then cannot have had more than four or five employees.

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