Bog standard means
that the item was made for the masses by established industrial manufacturers of furniture.
To give you an example.
A friend of my fathers owned Ødsted møbelfabrik where I used to love to go and a kid.
You walk in the door to Hans's fabric cutting room and then into the main factory part.
In the furthest end was pallets of wood and chipboard and in the nearest end was the finished item of furniture with work stations in between, where his staff did their "thing"
He made the furniture from scratch using his own set routine and not the regimented scale drawings of Finn Juhl, Wegner, Jalk or for that matter any known design. His own team decided upon what they considered in demand and that is what they made.
His furniture was well made and thought out and cared for in the process from timber to sofa and it was meant for any one who liked it.
Sadly Hans died of throat cancer about 8 years ago and the whole place was emptied, mostly to my warehouse spares and bits n bobs section, but all the machinery was chopped up for scrap.
That is bog standard.
The image shows some of hans's chairs
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