Mid Century Modern Danish Lounge Chair Identification  

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Thank you Kyle, I appreciate your response, Could they possibly be Distinctive furniture by Stanley chairs?

The picture is a chair by them

They're marked made in Denmark so I doubt it, that's the kind of clue no to dismiss. No other markings I assume?

I don't know off the top of my head, I am sure I've seen them before though.

It was just asked about a few hours ago:

https://www.designaddict.com/forum/General-discussion/cushions-for-my-Gre...

And it has nothing to do with Stanley. Nor M

No other markings at all, it's so frustrating trying to identify these chairs, but I appreciate your help!

OMG!! Leif I can't Thank you enough!!!!!!!! You totally made my day!!

Thank you both Kyle and Eric!!

Well, actually the chair is not identified in that thread at all. It was just a random danish chair with box cushions. So who made and designed it is still a completely open question.

It might be interesting to see the knockdown hardware.

Wait, I agree, Leif is amazing, but he did not tell you anything. Maybe I am just high, but who do you think your chair is by?

....... because I am pretty sure that he just commented that someone else was asking about the same chair, that is it.

There were two other designers and one maker listed in that post, Peter Hvidt, and Grete Jalk for Poul Jeppesen. I am quite sure it is not by Hvidt, and would be surprised to find out it is by Jalk for Poul Jeppesen. I see the similarities to her lounge chair for Glostrup, but none of the Poul Jepessen models are anything like the chair in question.

So, now we know it is not M

I was hoping to see some similarities with something in the photos of the knockdown hardware. For example, Glostrup's is very distinctive.

And no, I have not displayed any amazingness here at all, except recognizing it as a chair I saw hours ago, which is rather a routine parlor trick, and won't earn me a mela or get me in a door.

Sorry, I am not posting in real time, and I am high.

Would be great to see who this design belongs to. The side profile of the chair is very similar to the Arne Vodder Model 164.

The side profile is even more similar to a lot of other low back Danish lounge chairs. This type of chair was very, very common back then. I bought an unmarked one in a Danish junk store--teak, knockdown--for about $13 in the late 90s and a Danish friend laughed at the time and said it was a "Mother chair"---a term they coined because all their 80+ year old mothers still have theirs bought in the 50s and 60s.

So...there are a lot of them out there, and probably the majority are not by a well known designer or manufacturer. I have never seen another one like the one I bought, and I've looked at hundreds of them online by this point.

Yours is nice, though! I like the arms a lot. With new webbing and probably new foam it will be very comfortable. The very faded (?) area on that one back leg is a bit worrisome but I had a teak chair that was faded in places to that degree and it came back just with oiling. Hopefully you'll be that lucky.

That is the trouble with this one, it has a lot of similarities to other designs.

It definitely has similarities to Vodder and Juhl's designs for France, but is surely neither. Similarities to Jalk's chiar for Glostrup, but not quite. One of the strongest similarities is with Johannes Andersen's lounge chair design, but again, definitely not it. The way the arms blend into the leg/stile hearkens to some of Johannes Hansen's construction.

One of the main clues we have here might be the "Made in Denmark". The fact the M and D are capitalized, combined with the defined font, may help point us in the right direction. France and son always used all lower case from what I have seen. Most other companies used all caps, and a pretty simple font.

That was the one thing that struck me, too--the style of the "Made in Denmark". Specifically, that the M and D are a bit outsized. The tops of the lower case letters are below the midpoint of the upper case letters, a font style that is not the usual in furniture marks. That's the bottom of my depth of knowledge on this point, though.