Dear Forum membersJust found out about this place and as a danish design addict I'm thrilled by the shared knowledge in here.A little more than an year ago I bought this easy chair and had it restored. I really like the woodwork and shape of it.I was told it was a Kurt Østervig chair and have google-searched and found a few other similar items in darj wood also saying Kurt Østervig. But maybe all this is a false from the same wrong source? I have no sign or confirmation it is and know very little about it. So please write if any of you know more?Thank you
I don't know either. But it doesn't seem like a very solid attribution.
Normally what you would see is the manufacturer known because the chair is marked (with the manufacturer). It wouldn't have Kurt Østervig's name and no manufacturer. The only way Kurt Østervig's name alone would be known is if it came from a retailer's catalog (some of whom hid the manufacturer's name). But then all these people around the internet wouldn't have that catalog.
So I think we can be quite certain it has propagated around the internet from one attribution. Whether that one is correct is the question.
Subjectively, the design looks Norwegian (i.e. not Østervig), or in a larger sense it looks like a later design that needed to find an uncommon form for originality because all the more expected forms were very well represented. I don't think that suggests Østervig much.
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