Hi team,
I came across an interesting Danish armoire, and I thought I would share this with the group.
From what I can see
1) bass appears to be of mahogany
2) door centers look like teak
3) secondary wood is pine (or Doug fir?)
4) oddly simple drawers in mismatched wood, possibly birch?
This shares some similarities with Ole Wanschers case pieces. Lacks the refinement of Klint and Henningsen. I am also guessing it is Danish and was produced in the late 1940s.
Any thoughts?
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Stylistically, Ole Wanscher was always transitional between traditional and modern. And this piece is transitional like that, so I think the resemblance to Ole Wanscher is just a coincidence. My suspicion is that this is a very early factory piece dating to 1949-1951 or so. It is interesting to not that there is a very large knot in the teak veneer by the drawer handles. I would suggest this means that there was not an enormous quantity of teak veneer available at the time this was made, which again suggest that timeframe, or maybe a bit earlier.
The handles are pretty typical for 1945-1951 stock 'old style" handles that were used a lot then.
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