Potential Ole Wanscher Arm Chair Identification  

The chair looks very much like Wanscher. I've never seen one in person but the knock down construction also looks legit to me. That there's no makers mark is odd indeed. But where did you buy it? Maybe it's an early John Stuart import model where they messed up the marking. 

FWIW, I just bought this teak side table made by France and Son, which according to an old thread here is shown in an old Povl Dinesen catalog as by Ole Wanscher.  And as you can see, it has same keyhole joint construction. 

yes, I agree it looks legit. You don't see the 107s in the U.S. very often. I'm not sure if this model was ever part of the John Stuart line.

Found this image of stamp /mark on the same chair.

lexi, that is indeed the earliest F&D mark (at least, the earliest relevant to Danish Modern design)

Posted by: cdsilva

yes, I agree it looks legit. You don't see the 107s in the U.S. very often. I'm not sure if this model was ever part of the John Stuart line.

The stamp I posted is also marked with John Stuart.

ah, yes. Good to know.

The only John Stuart catalog I have is from 1962, and the 107 is not in that one. The F&D catalog page posted earlier is from ~1953.

the connection is absolutely conserved across many France and Sons models irrespective of the designer. The lack of brand is indeed strange, because France and Son somehow was very consistent with that. The wood looks a bit weird. What wood is that ? These chairs were offered only in teak as far as I can imagine. Unless this is a super early model made with mahogany and not labelled because of export, but also there, usually the John Stuart label would have been put by France and Son itself with a medallion too if I recall correctly.

@Andersen I'm pretty sure the early models came in stained beech. It was Juhl who introduced teak to France, but Wanscher's first desigs were introduced a couple of years before Juhl's.

Yes, early models were stained beech, and sometimes natural beech. The keyhole joint detail, including screw head type, in the OP's chair matches what it should look like for F&D.

good info about the stained beech. But the wood of the armchair shown on top, does not really look like stained beech, or ?

Really hard to tell from these pictures.