Ilmari Tapiovaara chairs?  

Here is a picture of the chairs

@amelias2. Link to a youtube video giving the history of the Fanett chair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw2HIkDB69w

This " style"chair was produced in different countries and I have seen ones made in Romania.

Stol Kamnik in Yugoslavia also made a version.

This is wonderfully informative video, thank you!

It seems like the mark is indeed a Made in Yugoslavia mark, so I’ve updated my post. I wonder what the upside down triangle underneath it is. It seems to have a K in it…? 

Definitely not Tapiovaara, but in the style of. 

I think these or similar chairs I have seen from the company Nesto or Hagafors, both Sweden. 

Thank you! Very interesting! What makes you think they aren’t Tapiovaara? I just quickly looked up the spindle back chairs from the two above Swedish ones and they have slight difference to mine… whereas I can’t really find a difference to the Fanetts that don’t have the fold….

In the past successful chair models were copied quiet often, or designer used elements from them. I think so happened also with Fanett chair. The genuine Fanett was first produced by Etsbyverken and later the patent was bought by the company ASKO. Especially Etsbyverken used a mark underneath with manufacturer name and Tapiovaara design. ASKO used only paper stickers which easily could fall off. I had seen both chairs in the past and all ASKO chairs lost their stickers. Here in Germany you can still find them here and there. 

The main difference between Fanett chair and your chairs is the number of spindles. Fanett has 6, your chairs have 7.  Also the shape and size of the seat is wider at Fanett. 

Super information, thank you! I have seen many stamped Fanett chairs with 7 spindles. I believe the model 55(T) had 6 spindles and the model 65(T) had 7. Here is an Edsby Verken version that looks (exactly?) like mine:

https://www.vntg.com/169833/set-of-6-ilmari-tapiovaara-dining-table-chairs-model-fanett-1965/

i have also found them made by Yugoslavian Stol Kamnik, as @lexi said above:

https://www.historica.si/en/offer/vintage-komplet-stolov-dizajn-ilmari-tapiovaara-model-fanett-stol-kamnik-60s.html

Thoughts?

Thank you so much for engaging with me on this!

@amelia S2 the chairs you found on VNTG are marked like this 

@brownkin  is this the mark you recognise

@wesemael: Unfortunatelly I cannot recognize anything. 

@amelias2: Yes, I do think Tapoivaara made a few chair designs which were similar to each other, also I have seen somewhere a source about this. I will do some further research later on. But I think the one called "Fanett", was only this one with 6 spindles on the youtube video from Lexi. 

@Browkin : If you go to minute 6:11 in @Lexi ‘s video, you will see that the Fanett was redesigned in the 1960s by Karlstorp to have 7 spindles 🙂

@amelias2. If you look through all the Fanett " style" chairs online ,especially the underside of the seat, you will see there are a few different shapes where the legs are inserted.

You can then compare your chairs to well marked examples  and maybe you will find your answer.

@lexi Great tip, thank you!