I am looking to sell my coffee table that I purchased from a Mod Mod Store a couple of years ago. Is this a original Grete Jalk coffee table? It has a John Stuart sticker on it I have attached some pictures. If it is how much could I sell it for?
I also have a three drawer dresser that I am unable to identify the designer. Thanks for your help!!
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That is one of the "companion" tables to the Great Dane group by France and Søn. John Stuart was just the retailer.
It has also been butchered by cutting the legs off to make it shorter.
The Great Dane sofas and lounge chairs are in-house designs by France and Søn. I believe that Grete Jalk drew the designs, but France and Søn owned the copyright, so they are not advertised as hers, except for in one instance I know of. (In house designs sometimes appear under the designer's name and sometimes under the company's/owner's name, often changing credit over time). However, it is a very complicated question still.
And the question of the "companion" tables is even more complicated. The catalog makes it very unclear if these tables were designed to be part of the Great Dane group by whoever designed the seating, or if France and Søn "married" them together. "Companion" is not a word that has any well defined meaning, and in other situations were tables were purpose designed for seating groups, such imprecise language is not used. Regardless, they also do not have a design credit in any catalog I've seen (and I've seen quite a few), so they are in-house designs. And the person who drafted the design is unknown.
I personally would feel comfortable advertising the Great Dane seating as Grete Jalk, with a big asterisk explaining the complexity of the situation. This is also influenced by the fact that Grete Jalk is fully credited with the 118 seating group, that is prior to, and extraordinarily similar to the models 127&128 in the Great Dane group. I wouldn't feel comfortable saying the same of the "companion" tables. Perhaps an attribution to Jalk could be justified.
I have also seen people attribute them to Finn Juhl, presumably because of the floating top and the fact that he did design work for France and Søn, some of which was in-house, and some of which was fully credited and under his own copyright. I would cast even more doubt on the Finn Juhl attribution just because there is too much conflicting financial interest in putting Juhl's name to a piece.
This isn't really a place to ask for values. And given the chop job, I would say the value is going to be severely reduced.
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