Who Was Woodpecker Industries Los Angeles?  

I'm pretty sure there has been a discussion of this here but right now the forum search engine isn't working. Maybe others will remember the details.

I have what looks like an Aalto table 90 with markings: Woodpecker Industries Los Angeles, and Made In Occupied Japan. Does anyone know anything about this company and it

Aalto has a patent for producing the bent wood legs used in his furniture & should look just like the drawing.

https://goo.gl/images/ej47JC

If the legs of the furniture in question does not match Aalto's patent, these are just look alikes or in the style of & has nothing to do with Aalto.

Products marked "Made in Occupied Japan" were for export items sold in the US usually at stores like Woolworths & similar stores right after WWII (mid 1940's to early 1950's). Most of the products I have encountered in the past were all in the style of another designer/ manufacturers work.

Aalto has only one building in the US, the Baker student housing in the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, the only Aalto US connection that I am aware of.

https://www.archdaily.com/61752/ad-classics-mit-baker-house-dormitory-al...

In 2010, LAMA listed a HM Eames LCW that according to the auction listing was branded with Woodpecker Industries Los Angeles. I assumed it was owned by & not sold by that company.