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havertz
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15/08/2020 10:07 am  

Hello,

I wanted to see if someone could identify which specific Selig chair this ottoman belongs to? Not sure if it could belong to numerous chairs, perhaps there's a way to identify it precisely though. Please let me know.

Thank you

 

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mark737
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15/08/2020 5:43 pm  

There have been a number of threads on Selig's  Danish furniture lines from the mid 50's.  Based on newspaper reports, Lawrence Peabody designed all but one chair of the first line introduced in 1954, which included an ottoman, shown here.  It's a bad picture but it appears to be the same as yours.  I believe they paired this ottoman with all of the lounge chairs from these collections.  I bought a Dan Johnson-designed high back lounge chair last year that came with this ottoman.  Ib Kofod-Larsen was brought in around 1956 to design additional pieces and make tweaks to earlier designs and Selig took the opportunity to credit him for some of Peabody's and Johnson's  work. You will see many ottomans like this online attributed to Kofod-Larsen.  And maybe yours was a version updated by Kofod-Larsen, I don't know the details well enough to say.    

This website has a lot of info on all of this.  

https://craftassociatesfurniture.com/blogs/lawrence-peabody-vintage-catalogue/lawrence-peabody-danish-line-lounge-chair-model-596-for-selig

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havertz
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16/08/2020 1:37 am  
Posted by: mark737

There have been a number of threads on Selig's  Danish furniture lines from the mid 50's.  Based on newspaper reports, Lawrence Peabody designed all but one chair of the first line introduced in 1954, which included an ottoman, shown here.  It's a bad picture but it appears to be the same as yours.  I believe they paired this ottoman with all of the lounge chairs from these collections.  I bought a Dan Johnson-designed high back lounge chair last year that came with this ottoman.  Ib Kofod-Larsen was brought in around 1956 to design additional pieces and make tweaks to earlier designs and Selig took the opportunity to credit him for some of Peabody's and Johnson's  work. You will see many ottomans like this online attributed to Kofod-Larsen.  And maybe yours was a version updated by Kofod-Larsen, I don't know the details well enough to say.    

This website has a lot of info on all of this.  

https://craftassociatesfurniture.com/blogs/lawrence-peabody-vintage-catalogue/lawrence-peabody-danish-line-lounge-chair-model-596-for-selig

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Thank you for the response. Yes, I'm hoping it's possible to determine if it is attributed to Kofod-Larsen, I also saw a Selig Poul Jensen Z chair that had what looked like the same ottoman paired with it. 


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mark737
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16/08/2020 3:49 pm  

Well, most sellers will attribute to IKL for the name value, and you may even find Selig catalogs or ads that attribute to him as well.  Still probably Peabody's design originally.   And it's not like it's some groundbreaking design worth fighting over - just a simple little footstool.

The Jensen Z chair is usually paired with this ottoman, as shown in a Selig catalog as model 601-10 and attributed to Jensen.

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havertz
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16/08/2020 9:18 pm  
Posted by: mark737

Well, most sellers will attribute to IKL for the name value, and you may even find Selig catalogs or ads that attribute to him as well.  Still probably Peabody's design originally.   And it's not like it's some groundbreaking design worth fighting over - just a simple little footstool.

The Jensen Z chair is usually paired with this ottoman, as shown in a Selig catalog as model 601-10 and attributed to Jensen.

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Thank you. I have the Kofod-Larsen "spear" chair so I was hoping this ottoman happened to go with it, however I'm away from home now so I can't currently check how they look/go together.


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