This has bugged me for long enough.
This chair is often seen described as a Finn Juhl design but I am highly sceptical, even more so when it is sold as a France & Son production which I am certain it is not.
I did read somewhere a while back that this rocker was produced in Holland under licence from Finn Juhl.
Thoughts anyone?
Hi Onno.
The way the chair is construction looks very atypical of France & Son pieces.
The joinery and shaping of the timber looks off and lacks finesse.
The visible screws are not the standard hex key bolts used by France & Son.
The sculpted ends to the armrests differ in size to a Model 133 Spadestolen.
There is a visible screw holding the backrest to the back of the armrests.
Iv'e never seen this design listed in any France & Son catalogue.
Whenever I have asked anyone selling this design if it has a France & Son tag the answer has always been no.
It's presumably based on...
It's presumably based on this FJ non-rocker (below), in which tapered dowels are used for the vertical parts of the frames, rather than the squared-off planks you see in the rocker. Though maybe the planks are necessary in the rocker because they are bigger and can better bear the stresses of rocking?
I recently bought 6 of these spade chairs (5 ordinary and 1 rocker) in Denmark, where they had been placed in a in holiday home. No marks or stickers, but I wonder if they were bought in Holland and taken back to Denmark.
Maybe Pastoe sold furniture in Denmark - or maybe there was a danish license on this model as well.....
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