Does anyone know the designer of this Farstrup Chairs and Table set ?  

Pretty classical windsor chairs with a strong influence of Tapiovaara's fanett chair. I would be suprised that you find a "name" behind them. Most likely generic / in house design.

They are pretty nevertheless and fits well in your (beautiful) home.

Edit: Found an ad for similar Farstrup chairs. No designer mentioned and the text is heavily insisting on the price.

I have owned one of the arm chair versions of that. I was never sure that it was indeed a Farstrup piece. There are other extremely similar designs, and various maker attributions for it. Farstrup is the most prevalent maker attribution.

I also would be surprised if you find a designer to put to them. Most likely, if you definitively figure out who made them, then the designer will be the owner of the company.

Thanks very much to both Leif and Dr Poulet. I am at least glad to know the manufacturer.

I bought them thinking they would work well for my son who graduates from university this year. I didn't take into account that he is 195 cm ( 6'-3") tall, so when he sat in the chairs they were not very comfortable.

They are a handsome set - but not for anyone over 180 cm I don't think.

Thanks again.

Oh, I did not see that they actually still have a maker's tag on them. That is great.

It is made by Poul M. Wolther for Farstrup. Beautiful set!

Best

The Dane

Any evidence for that?

If you are called DANISHDESIGN, and you sign with The Dane, there is no need to bring any additional evidence after identification...

Well, these chairs very much resemble the J46 chairs Volther designed for FDB - but there are slight differences and it is not evident at all that it was Volther who made the changes for Farstrup. I think it's not unlikely that some inhouse designer just took the very successful J46 design and made some minor corrections in order to sell it as a Farstrup chair. Would that make it a Volther design? I'm not sure.

If Volther did not draw the chairs for Farstrup, I think the farthest one could go ethically is to say that it is "Poul Volther STYLE."

This probably would make a new thread but I have been thinking for quite some time about how far the danish desiners would go in copying a style and to what extent it was accepted to do so. I reacently stumbled accros a chest of drawers designed by Niels Clausen for NC mobler which puzzled me because it looks like blatant copy of a pretty distinctive Arne Vodder high boy which is still in production. (I enclose pictures) I know that the danes somehow regarded their designs as common for all danes but then again there must have been something like a copyright.

It might be a (bad) copy, there is no way you can confuse the new one with the old one.

Funny you say that. The new one is Arne Vodder, it's a reedition which was approved by him, it is made after his own drawings and can surely be considered the original, I just couldn't find any picture of the Sibast version. The old one is the copy by Niels Clausen - or maybe some kind of very similar "inspired by" original. I don't know.

There are also very nice looking bedside tables with those same drawers made by Clausen. For me Clausen went over the line.

The copyrights were protected by the Bern Convention, whatever that means. I

Do you have any information on how and how much they got payed?