Faarup møbelfabrik dining table  

Thanks for sharing this information!

I had my suspicions.
Good to know, thanks for posting.

That's actually quite a scoop. In Denmark these tables get good hammerprices at auctions. I guess the attribution to Kofod Larsen has a great part in that. It makes you wonder if other furniture by Faarup Møbelfabrik quoted to Kofod Larsen is in fact designed by someone else.
As for Jørgen Linde, I have tried to track him down (google), but I'm not sure I got the right one, as I can't find a connection with Faarup Møbelfabrik. However, it's the only Jørgen Linde I can find, that has got anything to do with furniture. So the following information could be a wild goosechase, and is therefore provided as is.
"My" Jørgen Linde had a furniture store called "J.L Møbler" (J.L. Furniture), which later became "J.L. Møbler & Tæpper" (J.L. Furniture & Carpets). The add in the left side of the picture is from his store in 1961.
in 1977 Jørgen Linde had several furniture warehouses and changes the name to ILVA. In Denmark ILVA is considered like kind of a danish version of IKEA.
The chair in the right side of the picture, is an ILVA chair from 2011.
ILVA still exists to this day.
http://www.ilva.dk/   (site in danish)
 
EDIT
I just searched the danish statistical bureau. Today (2015) there's only 6 persons in Denmark by the name Jørgen Linde. I don't have the figure 40-50 years back, but my guess is, that it was quite uncommon then too.

I love Danish you are absolutely correct in your information on Jørgen Linde and ILVA.
 
Just got back from Denmark and another conversation with owner of the catalogue.

Interesting twist, a friend just got what appears to be this same table, with an IKL sticker underneath.

That is funny. I just looked at a retailer's catalog with the same Faarup table, even identified by model number, and it is credited to "Einar Hallas."
I will see about posting it....
Oh, and that is a Johannes Aasbjerg sideboard in the background. (Nice!)

Here are the catalog pages showing Einar Hallas as designer.
Ib Kofod Larsen is credited with other Faarup designs in the catalog, for what it is worth. There is also a Svend Aage Larsen credited with designs for Faarup.
It is worth nothing that Johannes and Einar August Hallas were the owners of Faarup. This could be said to fit in the model of other Danish designs, were the maker is sometimes credited, and sometimes a 3rd party designer is credited.

I love this place.

Hi leif,
Having looked at your excellent images i am of the conclusion that the co-operation between the 2 companies is why there is hallas and larsen together.
The chairs and sideboard being hallas and the table larsen.
It could be that what we have found is that faarup realised the value of larsen over linde and chose to "market" using larsen as he was better known.
Have we found the first deliberate accredited to as soooooo many ebayers and some dealers love to brand about to "pimp" the value of their wares?
Thanks for your efforts

You are mis-reading the catalog pages, which is extremely easy to do, as they have an unusual way of showing maker and designer.
The makers are listed along the top, and the associated designer is listed in a straight line below the maker along the bottom. Then the pieces are identified on the page with a maker model number code. So FA31 is the round Faarup table.
SO: the chairs, in both catalog pages, are Eric Buck for Chr. Christensen. The tables and sideboards are Einar Hallas for Faarup.
Of all three design credits for the table, I think the label underneath the table has the least credibility. Faarup printed labels with Kofod Larsen for his sideboard, and designer-less labels for other pieces. So I imagine either the factory misapplied the label, or the original buyer of that table got a whole dining set with legit Kofod Larsen pieces, and the labels got swapped when they fell off.
And current dealers crediting everything Faarup to Kofod Larsen is because of the financial motive.
I think the Jørgen Linde vs Einar Hallas design credit fits perfectly with the mysterious danish practice of changing design credit for a piece from a designer to a nominal representative of the maker, Einar Hallas being one of the brethren owners of Faarup. So pursuant to the phenomenon, Jørgen Linde designed the table, and later the design credit changes to the company, to Einar Hallas.
It is hard to imagine how Jørgen Linde, who according to earlier research in the thread has no prior known connection to Faarup could be credited in a catalog, unless he really did design it.
And, I think this is an extremely important point: I have never seen precedent of a maker changing design credit from one 3rd party designer to another. The design credit only changes to a representative of the maker.
That is how I would sort out this mess.
Finally, Simon, you have not comment on my "secret designers" thread. I am curious about your thoughts on it. Especially on the France and Søn Great Dane series. I think you must have some evidence it was designed by Finn Juhl??? I am very curious about this, as it would be quite a surprise given the documentation showing Grete Jalk or "France" as the designer.

The secret designers thread: http://www.designaddict.com/forum/General-discussion/Secret-Designers

Is it possible that Faarup owned the copyright on the design? ie :t hey wanted a specific look and contracted an out-of-house designer to design for the company? That could explain both the original accreditation and the subsequent changes. I am not familiar with Danish copyright laws, but in many jurisdictions a design by a freelancer can be purchased outright with the designer relinquishing all rights.

This is a page from a distributor's/retailer's catalog showing the Faarup table, with the designer cited as Jorgen Linde. The chairs are credited to R. Skovgaard Jensen. I do not know the year of the catalog.