help with identification of danish coffee tables?  

I read on hear recently that Ole Hald was the owner of Gudme, and I would suspect he was the designer of everything Gudme. N.O. M

thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts!

http://angelucci.net.au/dining-tables-1?product_id=916&sort=pd.name&orde...

today i found this table. it has some similarities in style, and is attributed to johannes anderson..

could that be a possability?

No it is not. The similarities are only superficial. Gudme did not make designer pieces.

The top on the table is solid teak through and through, so maybe that is a bit of a consolation.

Yeah, I am still trying to attribute my Gudme table a name. I doubt I'll get there.

It's a shame, because as evidenced by this, the craftsmanship and even design, Gudme has some real standouts. There's just no names beyond Ole Hald.

it's a looker, in my opinion.

It is not uncommon for non designer Danish pieces to be made very, very well.

It probably is not accurate to call them non-designer in fact. Ole Hald is the designer. He just did not bill himself as a designer and presumably was not an architect. And not all the designers were architects. N.O. M

But your point still stands. As it was, it wasn't sold with a designer's name on it or with the cache a designer's name has. And what we all like to do when identifying pieces is putting a name on the design, it's in that there's value. Not necessarily monetary value.

Be nice if there was documentation from Gudme somewhere of their designers.

In fairness, I've also seen plenty of Gudme tables that are extremely middle-of-the-road designs.

There might somewhere be documentation on Gudme. A retailer's catalog is probably more likely to put Ole Hald's name to whatever Gudme pieces they sold.

It is unlikely in the extreme that you will find designers in plural who worked with Gudme. Expect that if you ever find a name it will be the owner of the company: Ole Hald.

The catalogue i have for Gudme has no mention of any designers on any of the tables that it lists.

This is the introduction page

Aha! So theowner was a Johannes Jensen. Very well then. This nobody named Ole Hald is probably not the designer. Johannes Jensen is the name of the owner/designer.

Gudme M

Yes, that would make even more sense. And would explain how what seems like an unrelated name got into the mix, because he is not unrelated at all.

I would guess that short of contacting the family and asking them, it will be hard to sort out who takes credit for being the designer in the family. And of course the family designer back in 1948 would not likely be the designer in 2010.

The most likely choice would be to assume the owner at any time is also the designer, but families are not always so simple.