Danish? chair ID  

Not sure but they remind me...
Not sure but they remind me of Arne Hovmand-Olsen. Nice chairs.

just afraid...
Yeah, they seem nice. I would have to drive about two hours to bid on them. I'm just afraid they may be some Yugoslavian knockoff...also, not something for a cat owner. But who knows, there may be other items for me.

well....
Well, I saw the chairs in person. They had a Made in Denmark branded? mark, but no other identifying labels. The construction didn't seem to be of the highest quality, but at least two bidders sure wanted them. They sold to a phone bidder for $1000/pr. I didn't know they took phone bids for these backyard estate auctions...but I guess if the price is right anything goes.

did you buy anything...
did you buy anything else?
the weave on the chairs looks quality, hard to make out if the frames are. maybe a bit to dramatic in construction?

no, nothing else....
There were two additional Danish lounge chairs but they didn't have cushions. Also, since I don't have my own store I need to figure in the additional profit a store would want to make on them.
Yes, the caning was quality, and the arm rests were nicely sculpted. But the frame seemed kind of crude. The rear legs were made of two parallel pieces of wood which then branched out to form part of the back rest, and part of the seat. The joint was too visible I thought. Also, the frame member cross sections were all square, with just some rounded corners - nothing real sculptural.
But I admit, when they brought the chairs up and held them up for all to see... I almost kept bidding past my $500 limit.
The deceased owner had been a German structural engineer, immigrating to the US after the war. There were tons of reinforced concrete design books, all in German -which I could read but not understand. Most of the other stuff was kind of junky, old, and unattractive.