Slagelse Sofa 185  

@Herringbone

Danke, aber schnell wieder löschen!

Since then I have come upon more data and that data indicates Koppel. 

This example shows that you always have to be aware that you only have a provisional level of knowledge, depending on what data you have just come across.

Speaking of data, many catalogs of the time are faulty and incomplete, at that time nobody had thought that there would later be a fanatical group of enthusiasts, who want to know exactly which chair they are sitting on. That is why I can also easily understand when descendants from a designer's family do not feel like providing information because they are aware that the work of their father or mother is of no relevance in the historical context, but just only one chair from many others from the era. Think of Arne Jacobsen's saying: "People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it." Arne Jacobsen doesn't mean to say anything else than that people should please remember him, what a stunner he is. Sheer egoism, just before profile neurosis. When I sit on a beautiful Art Deco or Art Nouveau or Biedermeier or Louis Philippe chair, I don't care which carpenter designed the chair, I simply appreciate it as a wonderful object of its style era. If it is still well crafted, then all the more. However, if it is technically disastrously processed like many France & Son products, then the chair ends up in the bulky waste at some point. Because a company that mainly produced mass-produced items for export and did not attach great importance to quality craftsmanship can simply be forgotten. The hype surrounding the MCM is completely overrated, there are only a few style-forming designers from that era who are relevant to design history, the rest is completely uninteresting. That's why I sometimes have to smile at the efforts that are made here to identify some perfectly ordinary piece of furniture. Brand fetishism could that be called, like the teenagers in the schoolyard: if you don’t wear branded clothes, then you’re done.

Please excuse my bad english. Google translator is jointly responsible.

It's just a game, @aaronny, let the people play. Me I like the game too.

(But you are not entirely wrong, from a philosophically viewpoint. 😀)

Apologies in advance for butting in : nothing to do with the topic being dicussed, but I decided to check out @aaronny 's  "activity" on this Forum. Found the following thread and thought I would share a glimpse of the Forum back in it's heyday.

And it made me realise, that I do miss Aunt Mark and his "random", hilarious posts.

https://designaddict.com/community/main-forum/Random-thoughts-15909/#post-62241

@lexi

Quote: "Feel free to share your questions, creations and reflections about these subjects in this forum, even though you are dead drunk." 🤣🤣

Back to the topic.

Question to the interested audience: Why should Eva Koppel or Nanna Ditzel be so stupid as to design a sofa that is almost identical to the design of the Finn Juhl model 46?