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Andersen
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21/03/2021 10:49 am  

Hi there. Bumped on these pictures online. Would appreciate any thought about my theory this is a Kofod-Larsen -inspired chair. How the front legs are tapered is quite funny, although interestingly enough also the Elisabeth chair legs are also tapered, but to a differently extent. What looks also esthetically funny, is how the armerest are cut towards the backrest, and the connection between the back legs appears to be higher than any Larsen chair. I think these two details speak for an inspired chair.

 

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cdsilva
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22/03/2021 4:44 pm  

The chair you found was made in Germany. Here is an old thread on the subject:

https://designaddict.com/community/identification/Elizabeth-Chair-Kofod-Larsen-Made-Germany1732/

Since that thread, I have come to believe that the design is not a knockoff (or inspired by), but rather a licensed variation of the Christensen&Larsen Elizabeth chair, made by (or imported by) Hanseatic Furniture Company. This is based on four pieces of info: 1) the attached 1959 Furniture Forum spread, which shows that IKL was affiliated with Hanseatic. The shown design looks like the Danish-made chair for Selig, but at least the ad shows that Hanseatic sold IKL designs. 2) Someone mentioned on a separate forum that his parents had a pair of chairs that looked just like the German made Elizabeths, and that a Hanseatic brochure was kept with them when they bought the chairs. I tried to get a copy of that brochure but could not.  3) finding listings as per the original thread that showed this chair variation had labels that said made in Germany, and 4) IKL had a track record of not only having many variation of this chair style (most for Selig), but also of designing for companies that had production outside of Denmark: OPE - Sweden, G-Plan - UK.

While there are certainly other conclusions that can be reached with the above info, I believe this chair is an authorized IKL design, which was made in Germany.

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22/03/2021 7:13 pm  

@cdsilva. I came across a chair, also designed by Kofod- Larsen, in a publication which I stupidly forgot to take note of ( pic 1). The text is hard to read but I think it says Sola Mobelindustri. The same chair is in the DFI ,which states it is made by Sella Mobelindustri. Their reference is Mobilia 1958. Does anyone have this Mobilia? Have you seen this chair ?

 On a side note,he also designed for Vatne lenestolfabrik in Norway. ( pic 2)

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cdsilva
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22/03/2021 7:23 pm  

I don't have that Mobilia, but Sola was a Norwegian manufacturer. Here is an ad for a bullet desk I own, which was imported into the US by Scandia Craft.

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22/03/2021 7:39 pm  

@cdsilva. Yes I am aware of Sola Mobler in Norway but  is it the same company as Sola Mobelindustri?

Image from Mats Linders page of your desk; with designers name. Also link to his Sola post. It would seem Scanform was the export company.

http://www.matslinder.no/2019/08/20/sola-mobler-produktkatalog-fra-1960-tallet/

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cdsilva
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22/03/2021 7:51 pm  

Interesting to see the desk attributed to a designer by Mats. I wonder where he got that attribution from, considering other pages in that catalog credit the designer in the text.

I've noticed a few manufacturers that either use different terms for furniture maker, or change that part of their name over the years. In this case, the catalog page itself uses two terms at the same time: "Mobler" in the logo, and "Mobelfabrikken" in the name/address at the bottom. I would assume that "Mobelindustri" is either the same, or closely related to the other Solas.


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22/03/2021 8:04 pm  

He mentions that designer at the beginning of the post as listed as one of  their designers. I wonder did he find further documentation at a later date and edited/updated the page? He has a lot of literature in in his personal library but I have to say he appears to be somewhat disorganised. I get the impression he collates all of this on his own.

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Andersen
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29/03/2021 9:44 pm  

@cdsilva & @lexi thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. Unfortunately, I could not see the chair in person, but my guess would be there is no label on it... hope to find a "real" K.F. chair, but these are difficult !


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