Curved Back Rest Chairs - Unverified Models  

@mark737. I have the same chairs in my unknown curved back chair folder. Attributed to Kai Kristiansen, no less !! 

I have images of various curved back chairs, but without documentation, in the aforementioned folder and am hoping someone might actually post one of them on the "reference" thread  with  verifiable proof:  Wishful thinking maybe?

Ultimately, we may have to post all the unconfirmed chairs ,in this style, in a different thread ?!?

Time will tell.

Thanks for posting.

Yes, maybe we should post the unverified ones here,  or in separate threads, and then once verified add them to your official reference thread.    Do you have any of the ones attributed to Hovmand-Olsen in your folder?  Like this one, attributed to both Hans Hovmand-Olsen and Arne Hovmand-Olsen within the same 1stDibs listing.  

It is a great idea really to post unidentified chairs here in another thread. This is for discussion. So: I have a few. The obvious is the Korup chair (pic 1). I try to reach somebody from Korup and hope he can tell me about it. I know that Korup worked with Henry Kjærnulf, never with Kai Kristiansen. But I don’t know if this particular chair is indeed Kjærnulf. The other one  (pic 2) is often called „fire chair“. I don’t think it’s Kai Kristiansen and I don’t think the name makes sense. In Danish fire stole means four chairs, you often find that in auction descriptions. I guess that’s where the name comes from. But I don’t even know which company produced it. Anybody has an idea?

And here is an unnamed German production, which has been discussed at least two times on the forum. 

2 chairs by SAX. Stamped on the base. No other info so far.

 Another Farstrup chair ;Model 206. Different style to the ones posted on the other thread. No idea of designer so posting here.

Aaahhh, here it gets interesting. The SAX chairs are nearly identical to the Høng and the Korup and the „fire“ chair. I would love to find out which was designed by whom.

I saw a couple of auction listings attributing the Farstrup 206 to Edmund Jorgensen.  Something to look into.  

Also attributed to Edmund Jorgensen is this chair, which is nearly identical to the Sibast #9 chair, except for the addition of a front stretcher.   

The second picture is a drawing of Edmund Jorgensen’s store in Nakskov, which according to the Facebook page where I found it, is from 1950.  Interestingly, if you zoom in you can actually see some of the chairs in question.  The third picture is a zoomed in crop that appears to show the chair in Pic 1.   If it was from 1950, that would make it earlier than Sibast's #9 which came out in 1956. 

@mark737. Have not got the chair you posted in my "folder". Have not found anything like it so far. And I think the "Hans" Hovmand- Olsen is probably just Hans Olsen?

I have found some other interesting chairs by Arne H-O, which I might post at a later date.

@mark737 good one! Here is one that is usually attributed to KK by VSA. @leif-ericson Do you have a full VSA catalog? If so, could you check if any of the models that are attributed to KK are in there besides model 31 and the Compass?

@herringbone.  I had that chair saved too ! My " unknowns" file is beginning to fill up. 🙄 

Found a very strange one.

@herringbone I do not believe that chair is in there. It is a late 1960s catalog and VSA offered some interesting things earlier that I believe would be in an early 1960s catalog. I saw a few pages of one once and identified at least two mysteries. 

One thing is can tell you is that there is a vintage unauthorized duplicate of the KK model 30 chair. In the article in Dansk Kunsthaandværk there is a photo of the real chair and the fake and I can see no way to tell them apart. 

I also came across this story from a Danish Magazine, Familie Journal, where they gave a antiques expert 1000 DKK ($150) to see what he could find at a flea market.  The picture shows him with what they describe as Edmund Jorgensen chairs, which appear similar to the Farstrup 206 models.  The seller was asking about $40 for a pair but after he told her what they were she doubled the price. 

    https://www.familiejournal.dk/hus-og-have/antik/hvad-kan-man-faa-en-tusse

Aksel Bender Madsen/Ejner Larsen chair ;produced by L. Pontoppidan.

I am posting this chair here for the moment because,while it is not exactly like the others that have been posted, it does have a curved back rest. I also think it is rather beautiful. I cannot find it anywhere else on the web.

Adding a pic of the publication it is from.