Danish armchair ID?  

walnut . . . stain?

More pictures would be a good start.

The arms look like oak to me. But close-ups are always useful.

I have seen a couple of these in person, could have picked one up last month.

They are definitely NOT Walnut, it was either ash or elm. I just saw one marked online a few weeks ago when I was searching for something else, and am 75% sure it was Lane, that made them, and 100% sure that it was a common American producer, because I remember thinking, "whew glad I didn't spend 250 on that," ..... but also "wow, that is one of their best looking pieces I have seen" .......

It is still a nice find, it has decent lines for a common american produced piece, and if you did not pay anything, even better! The cushions and webbing will probably cost about 250-300. If you are planning on keeping it, go ahead and get it done, but if you are planning on re-selling, I would sell just the frame.

I will see if I can find the actual attribution and update this post if I can.

It is a very late Heywood Wakefield, towards the end before closing its doors forever in 1979 & not what they are known for. (Someone bought the rights to use the name in the mid 1990s).

The images are from a woodworking book called Anatomy of Contemporary Furniture published in 1963, one of the required textbook from my early woodworking class from my community college days in the late 80's before arch school. It has shop drawings of some well known & mostly lesser known designs (like this chair & the rest of the HW trying to look alike Danish line) drawings & how to instructions that no current manufacturers would want to show consumers now. This book was my earliest reference on how to ID the components/ parts of a Cado system.

Thanks Minimoma. Now I remember, I also thought "wow it is not blonde wood, or Decco-looking"

It is not surprising that you thought it was Danish, and missed on the wood .... you are not the only one, and you were at least in the ball park, compared to these guys:

https://www.rubylane.com/item/1276642-MCMT-0518/Mid-Century-Modern-Teak-....

....... I dont know, maybe I am completely wrong, and you can also sell it for $1700.

I think the original segmented (?) cushions is what makes this chair less generic looking like many of the American made Danish look alike that is out there.

I did not know these were Heywood Wakefield. Very interesting. Very American to me, although that hardly counts now that it has been subsequently proven to be American. I am guessing ash, but the photos really are not clear enough to say.

Too funny... before checking the comments here this evening, I turned the chair over again, and discovered (a) some scratches that revealed lighter wood, indicating that it was stained rather than solid walnut, and (b) that the stamp reads CAFE WALNUT. When I Googled that, I found a bunch of Heywood-Wakefield ads.

Whereupon I came back here and discovered that you'd all made a positive ID! Thank you, everyone.

So it is merely a good find rather than a spectacular one. But the price was right, certainly.

I tossed a couple of cushions on it just to try it out, and it is quite comfortable. Will probably keep it for awhile, space permitting (see my username).

About fifteen or so years ago I bought a bunch of theses chairs from a Catholic monastery. They were all stamped with the stain color that had been applied. The wood on all of the chairs appeared to be oak. The stamp appeared to be ink and all in capital letters e.g. TEAK, WALNUT.

People often think what they have is teak or walnut due to the stamp, when in fact it's a stained wood.

Secrettruth--i don't think I've ever seen a piece of furniture with the wood species name marked on it anywhere! Stain color, sure. All the time.

Minimoma, thanks for posting that schematic. I have the ottoman that goes with this chair and I always kind of wondered who made it. It's oak (finish was completely trashed so I stripped it). I bought it online to go with a recliner but it didn't really work. It's not great quality but it has a nice look to it.

Would it be a crime to strip the chair and just oil it? Or soap it? Or [broken record warning!] India ink? My ottoman wasn't stained, it just had a tinted clear finish on it that came off completely. I can't stand wood that is made to look like some other species.