Hi all!I found a great looking sofa in my friend's garage.Been trying to find out if its more than just a pretty sofa but have been having a hard time tracking down the designer. Could be a Fritz Hansen sofa but somehow looks slightly different! Apprarently it has been repolstered about 10 years ago, this may be why it looks different from a "Folke Ohlsson"?Hope you guys perhaps can dfigure out who the maker is! 🙂 Br.FatPhil
That is a Jupiter group sofa made by France and Søn.
It is model number 218/4. The /4 denotes that it is a 4 seater.
This model is an in house design, which is to say that France and Søn's advertising did not specify designer, at least in no documentation I have yet to turn up (perhaps there is some such catalog or retailer's catalog in existence), HOWEVER, the secret, "in house" designer was Finn Juhl, which we know from the trade magazine, Mobilia. See here for more on this specific example and the in house, secret designer phenomenon:
http://www.designaddict.com/forum/General-discussion/Secret-Designers
Thanks Leif! I guess since its an inhouse design theres not a whole lot of info in the sofa online!
Would the sofa be worth anything? (i know forum rules say that its not allowed to ask for value - so just yes/no would suffice).
Its more because if its worth a penny or two id ask my friend if he still wants to give it away or not!
tktoo: Yeah i was pretty lucky, but i still had to help my buddy move all day so the found is not for free! 😉
Again, thanks Leif!
I like tktoo's estimation of value method.
And, just about anything with Finn Juhl's name is worth a bit. I suspect that this is not a particularly valuable Finn Juhl, as it is bland compared to the vast majority of his designs.
Here is another Jupiter series piece that sold at auction, just to give you a vague sense of the scale of magnitude. (Note any data the Lauritz puts out is automatically suspect, so don't believe anything in that listing except what you can independently verify):
http://www.lauritz.com/en/auction/finn-juhl-lounge-chair-jupiter-series-...
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