@cdsilva if you would have seen me desperately zooming and trying to read the text maybe you'd upgrade it to trolling. In any case, a had a good laugh.
@mark737 I think you're onto something. Interestingly, the furniture index image and many others online show this chair without a rear stretcher, whereas the "KK" image shows it with one. The photo I posted also has the rear stretchers, not that I think there is any way these are KK. And I just noticed that the furniture index version is a stacking chair, whereas the KK attributed ones and mine are not. Perhaps there was a small production of a non-stacking version. I guess I could contact Magnus Olesen - I won't have this set in hand for another week or so, so I'll hold off for now. Thanks.
Yes, the majority do not have the rear stretchers. Here's one on Chairish with stretcher and label to confirm. Called the 45 series chair it was designed by Rud Thygesen and Johnny Sorensen in the 80's. They were (and still are) available in stacking and non-stacking versions
@mark737 Thanks a bunch. Sometimes inquiries like this feel silly when others here are doing amazing research, but us small-timers need to start somewhere!
No problem. I'm still a small-timer myself and learn a few new things with each inquiry. At least that's what I tell myself to justify all the time I waste here.
Same. And re: that amazing research others are doing (@herringbone , @leif-ericson , etc.), I should correct my earlier statement about Henning Kjaernulf to Henry Kjaernulf. I'm still looking forward to @herringbone post about this, as there is so little information about HK and TONS of attributions to him that I don't think are well founded.
@frankielemmons Wait just another two weeks or so. I‘ll try to reach out to his family for the last time. If I don’t get anything, I‘ll publish what I have, which is already something. Although I might not be able to clear all the attributions and possible missattibutions. If there‘s no source in the family, you have to go the other way round and confirm every attribution via catalogs, pricelists and ads etc. which can be an academic task if these things are not easily accessible on the net. Which is the case for many companies Kjærnulf seems to have designed for.
"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it." (Arne Jacobsen)
@mark737, @frankielemmons - by the way: You‘re doing great!
"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it." (Arne Jacobsen)
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