Oak Chair - Bornholms Mobelfabrik  

As discussed privately, I hope someone more clever than I comes along to enlighten us! It's a beautiful chair regardless and certainly caught my eye. I would very happily keep that.

Johannes Sorth was the owner of Bornholms M

Leif,

thank you for your extremely detailed and knowledgable observations/comments.So informative and a great help.

Leif,

the SW-96 you referenced I have also seen designated as BO96....which I was speculating might suggest some form of collaboration between Bornholms and Soren Willadsen and/or Finn Juhl and Johannes Sorth. Do you know of any acknowledged expert on Finn Juhl who have insights into whether such collaborations occurred?

Also wondering if my chair might potentially be an important piece....at least from an historical perspective and if so if you have any thoughts on if there is a natural place where is should reside? Any further thoughts and insights would be valued

Some Finn Juhl pieces were made by different producers, indeed. But here we have a clear case of a chair "inspired by"..Bornholm was one of the many very small furniture companies that mainly or solely produced designs by the owner themselves. And since the owners mostly were cabinetmakers and not architects, they often would take successfull models from other companies as a source of inspiration. Compare the sideboards from NC M

@herringbone: That set sold by Wright is indeed the design I am referring to. Wright is simply wrong that they are Bovirke. This is an old mistake that goes back to the Finn Juhl Memorial exhibition in the 1980s. In the catalog the SW-96 dining chair is captioned with: "Bovirke?." Note the '?'. The design was made by S

@herringbone I am not sure that you can see the model numbers on those ads posted here as they were resized down. You can look me up at instagram and see a post I recently did on just this topic: https://www.instagram.com/movablemodern/

I was going to mention, it's funny Herringbone asked that, re: SW-96 because you just posted about it on Instagram a week or two ago, but firstly I felt like I reference Instagram too much on here and secondly I didn't want to post the answer because I only know it from you, Leif and only as of a week ago or so!

Seems as if I should be on Instagram, too. Very nice documentation, thanks for the enlightenment.

Thanks for posting that Bornholm