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heavyasmountains
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05/06/2013 12:07 am  

I have no idea who designed or manufactured these. They have no markings. I picked up the set of 5 a few months ago and have since commenced working on them, as they were too rickety to sit on. Having taken off the art fiber rush, I discovered staples underneath that indicate that at one time there may have been seats on them. This is really all I know...
Thanks for any help!


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05/06/2013 12:25 am  

Rastad & Relling?
The curve on the seat can be a giveaway.


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Spanky
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05/06/2013 6:10 am  

I don't think they are R&R--
The R&R chair dips a bit along the top of the back whereas these curve upwards a little. And the upper corners are pointier on the R&R and the inside upper corners have a smaller radius curve. But the seat does looks pretty similar.


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SDR
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05/06/2013 8:11 am  

Round legs
vs squared . . .


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Richard Tanimura
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07/06/2013 5:28 pm  

I think it is R&R.
I...
I think it is R&R.
I think if you are comparing the first two fotos, you might come to the conclusion that Spanky makes. But look again at the two pictures - focus particularly on the legs. You can see that the second shot is taken closer to 45 deg from the front of the chair. You see that because in the second foto, the front left leg is almost aligned with the rear right leg. The camera is also lower in the second foto - you see more of the rear legs in the second shot. I think this deceives the eye.
If you take into account the angle and camera height and add in the focal length of the lense, I feel you can explain away all the differences between the first two shots.
I don't say this to be contentious. But we are all often asked to make attributions based on solitary, often fuzzy, actually pretty lousy picture, made under questionable lighting conditions, using different cameras with different lenses. People like Spanky and many others including myself try as hard as we can to help other ID stuff. But this just shows how hard that is. We had two pretty good fotos but of different chairs using different lighting and possibly lenses and it becomes REALLY hard.
Now, just to throw more data into the mix, I am adding yet another view of these chairs for comparison. My pic is almost certainly R&R and are stamped "Made in Norway". You decide.


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Spanky
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07/06/2013 7:38 pm  

Ok, BUT...
...the first photo wasn't fuzzy or poorly lit, and though angle and lens distortion can sometimes confuse the issue, the differences here are beyond that.
I happen to have a Rastad-Relling Bambi dining chair so I just took a quick photo of the chair from the same angle as the OP's (also not to be contentious but because I love comparing things!). I cropped a screen capture of the OP's photo, for what it's worth.
You can see the inside curve made by the back and side is very different, as is the shape of the top.
In addition, as SDR said, square leg vs. curved.
They're very similar but they're not the same chair.


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heavyasmountains
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07/06/2013 8:20 pm  

Great points
While I believe the designer could be the same, I am sure that the R&R chair pictured is not the same as my chair.
The main points being:
1) Squared v. Round legs (mentioned earlier by SDR)
2) The seat backs of my chairs curve up, while the R&R chairs pictured dip down (mentioned earlier by spanky)
3)Notice where the side apron joins the back legs on the different chairs--whereas mine connect in the center of the leg (on the x axis), it appears that the R&R chairs meet the closer to (or directly to) the back apron. Maybe you can confirm this, spanky?
The first R&R pic does make clear that the wood joins very similarly on the seat back as on my chairs...
If I hadn't taken them apart to re-weave and fix the joints, I would take more pictures. I may be able to find previously taken pictures...


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Spanky
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07/06/2013 8:53 pm  

On your point #3--
my R-Rs have a different seat design than the ones cited by ScanDesign, but yeah, the back leg posts on yours are notched out more where the connect to the seat rails.
I'm thinking not the same designer but only because most designers don't do two such similar designs. (Caveat: "most". I'm sure someone can come up with examples to the contrary.)


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