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Greenspace
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26/08/2020 5:18 pm  

Hello 

Please could you take a look at this ‘70s beech rocking chair’ I picked up for a project. 

No makers marks. Just wondering if it has any background. 

 

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mark737
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28/08/2020 4:51 pm  

Hard to say for sure without additional photos, preferably without cushions, but it looks like it might be Ole Wanscher for France and Daverkosen, model FD108 .  This photo is from the Danish Furniture Index from a F&D catalog.  A seller listing says c.1951.  Some of these may have John Stuart tags since it appears he imported and sold this model.   

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tktoo2
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28/08/2020 11:48 pm  

Pardon the pun, but those striped, tufted cushions rock! If there's any way to keep them, I'd recommend it. Without them, it's just another almost great Danish beech rocker, imho.


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Greenspace
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29/08/2020 10:33 pm  

Thank you for the replies!

I can take a cushionless pic tomorrow but here’s what I took earlier.

 

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Greenspace
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29/08/2020 10:34 pm  

sorry I don’t know why the photos are sideways

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Greenspace
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29/08/2020 10:39 pm  

I was thinking of making up some removable covers and keeping the originals underneath. 


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mark737
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31/08/2020 3:48 pm  

It still looks to me like other Wanscher 108 models, except that all I saw had vertical back slats.  The more common 110 rockers have horizontal slats.   Maybe they made some 108 models with vertical slats and some horizontal? 


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31/08/2020 6:13 pm  

It would not be the first France Design to be altered in the course of its production history. 

"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it." (Arne Jacobsen)


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Greenspace
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01/09/2020 11:01 pm  

Excuse the little hands.

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01/09/2020 11:01 pm  

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01/09/2020 11:03 pm  

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Greenspace
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11/09/2020 3:39 pm  

last little bump in case anyone has thoughts? 


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