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machupicchu
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27/08/2010 3:43 am  

...I suspect that this is just a crude knock off of Niels O. Møller or someone,however would love to be proven wrong.
They are stamped 'Made in Denmark'


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27/08/2010 11:52 am  

G Plan
this is a G Plan dining chair, very standard design lots of them around.


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27/08/2010 11:54 am  

Ignore me!!
In my sleepy state I managed to not read that they're stamped danish! But still a very similar design to the ladder back G Plan chairs (excuses, excuses 🙂


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machupicchu
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27/08/2010 2:56 pm  

G-plan
I can send a photograph of the indented Denmark stamp if that would help anyone?
Danish 'G-plän' perhaps?


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Robert Leach
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27/08/2010 5:21 pm  

G Plan
made everything in their factory in High Wycombe, even the Kofoed Larsen stuff, nothing was made in Denmark.
Hope this helps.


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machupicchu
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27/08/2010 8:27 pm  

thanks Robert
but yeah I knew that everything Gplan was made in this country,just thought that there may have been a company in Denmark that had the same reputation sturdy functional etc but was not associated with any designer?


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Robert Leach
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27/08/2010 8:55 pm  

Ah
Sorry, I see you what you meant.
Probably a few of those !
Simon might recognise them ?


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machupicchu
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27/08/2010 11:19 pm  

that's ok
No need to apologise,thanks for the comments
Graeme


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28/08/2010 2:51 pm  

are you trying to pick a fight???
" been a company in Denmark that had the same reputation sturdy functional"
Gplans reputation is for immitations made using cheap materials such as plastic effect veneers, formica and over glossed polyurethane varnish!!!
All of which are an insult to Danish manufacturers who use the best materials for the lifespan of the finished item.
Oil finished or light cellulose varnish or even shell laquere on older items.
Sturdy functionality. Next time you get a danish dining chair and a G plan compare the joins of the legs to the side rails.
See the amount of screws and triangle blocks and glue on the Gplan and compare that to the thought out dowel join or wave join on the danish chair as that has been tested by the Danish furniture makers control board who would piss them selves laughing if glue, screws and trinagle corner blocks were used.
Ok rant over!!!
Besides that your chair could be from any number of genereic makers such as Korup stole fabrik, Thorup or even Brdr Juul Kristensen. one will never know and it is immaterial as the chair will not be worth more or less. Use it enjoy it for what is in tended for.


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28/08/2010 5:47 pm  

plastic veneers!!!!
G Plan, though often wrongly used to describe generic British mid-century furniture, was (and no doubt still is)a good quality brand. We sell and restore lots of British and Danish furniture and find the good and bad in both. G Plan certainly didn't use plastic veneers or wood effect anything, admittedly they were a little heavier handed with the glossy finishes than Danish manufacturers but that just reflected the British tastes of the time. If anything it helps to protect the veneers, it is after all not too difficult to strip and refinish an item. We've had lots of poorer quality Danish furniture over the years that achieve higher prices simply because they are 'Made in Denmark' irrespective of the build quality. There is a common misapprehention out there that Danish furniture means solid teak or rosewood etc. though of course this is not the case. Your average G Plan sideboard or dining table will be thick teak veneers over a particle board base just the same as lots of Danish versions, G Plan versions are finished to such a high degree that you'd never know unless you sand or damage the top, whereas many Danish pieces have exposed particle board at the underside of drawer fronts, cupboard doors, indeed anywhere that the customer was not likely to look. Lots of British design was and still is of great quality, perhaps we just don't always see it because it's on our own doorstep


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Robert Leach
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28/08/2010 5:53 pm  

Well Said
I totally agree
I'm a huge fan of Danish furniture, but has a fondness for G Plan too, and have mostly found G Plan to well made and constructed.. a G Plan wall unit, regardless of aesthetics is far superior in manufacture to, say, a PS Systems wall unit


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