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Garth45
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02/03/2020 4:53 pm  

My mother's parents shipped this to her from a design exhibition in Copenhagen circa 1955.  It's been the victim of one reupholstering but survived basically intact.  My mother swears it is a prototype or sample Finn Juhl but I have been unable to verify that via internet research.  I contacted the reconstituted Finn Juhl company in Denmark and they stated that it looked, walked and quacked like a Juhl, but they could not confirm as it was not in their current line.  It resembles an SW-86 but it is not.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  This is my first time using the forum, so apologies in advance!  I will add additional photos as technology permits ...

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Garth45
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02/03/2020 4:56 pm  

The top portion, detached.

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Garth45
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02/03/2020 4:58 pm  

Current configuration.

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02/03/2020 7:01 pm  

@garth45 : according to the interweb this is a BO-90 chair by Arne Vodder or at least this is what it is being sold as. ( BO stands for Bovirke, a retailer in Denmark)

@leif-ericson or @cdsilva may have documentation to confirm this or you could go searching yourself.

I love the shape of the  chair frame and also the Tabby sitting in the chair..

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Garth45
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02/03/2020 7:43 pm  

Lexi,

You are spot-on!  Isn't the internet an amazing thing?  Thank you so much for the information.  I might have had some qualms about allowing Percival the Cat to rest upon Finn Juhl laurels, but an Arne Vodder suits him just fine. And I'll let my 93-year-old mother know that she is not senile, just a little confused.

Regards ...

Garth

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02/03/2020 9:33 pm  

It does look like a BO 90 from the given photos. Here is the Bovirke catalog page for it. Leif has a much better grasp of who made specific pieces for Bovirke. I would say Soren Willadsen is a good guess for this chair.

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02/03/2020 9:34 pm  

It’s AV, not FJ, but maybe find Percy an old IKEA to hang out on.


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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02/03/2020 10:25 pm  

What everyone else said.  Arne Vodder Bo-90.  I am really not sure who made this.  Can you provide a really close up photo of the top of the front leg?  I would like to see if there is a separate block of teak there....


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Garth45
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02/03/2020 10:37 pm  

But of course.  It will take me a couple of days as the chair was just dropped off at Danish Modern LA for reupholstering.  It was either them or Hume Modern so I flipped a coin.  Never too soon to restore a family heirloom - or a cheap knock-off as the case may be!

 

To the best of my recollection it is solid beech connecting to solid teak but I will send the picture at the first opportunity.  I only hope that someone has a question regarding Will Sparks paintings or Gretsch White Falcon guitars so I can repay the favor ...


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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03/03/2020 1:34 am  

By "separate" I mean that it would be glued on and fairly non-obvious.  I will also mention a few things about Bovirke: it is commonly referred to as a "maker" as though it was a workshop and this is not correct.  It was a singly brick and mortar store in Copenhagen.  It sold pieces from many of the major makers around Denmark but it also "produced" pieces exclusively for itself, which means that it paid for them to be made at other shops around Denmark on a contract basis.  The Finn Juhl and Arne Vodder pieces are the best known of these.  Many of the contractors are unknown.  PP Møbler, Søren Willadsen, and S. Winther (who was a cabinetmaker in the Copenhagen Guild) were some of the known contractors.  


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