I'm trying to identify these chairs and it's driving me mad. Have looked at DFL, many web searches and my limited library but nothing really hits the right note. I think they look a bit Borge Mogensen ish ish ish....or maybe not. Very nice curved back rail, rest is teak. Any suggestions or directions to look in most gratefully received.
I appreciate your research....
I appreciate your research. I don't know these chairs but I think provenance is important to most of us and I am glad you checked. My primary resource is DFI (as it is called on this forum). It is well documented as to what it accepts but has not kept up with Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish design. Neither have they kept up with fine Danish designers like Kindt-Larsen, Kofod Larsen, Johannes Andersen and other Danes who worked designing for Swedish companies. (I was in a fine store in Copenhage a few weeks ago. The owner said, do you know of a designer named Ib Kofod Larsen? He is some guy who designed some chairs and is famous because Quees Elisabeth bought them. I have never heard of him.)
If I had a stack of old journals, I would refer to them as well but I don't. Seems you do. Great.
Thank you for your contribution (absolutly NOT ironic). So many sources today are secondary or tertiary or what ever comes after that. I buy lots from Lauritz but that is because I know they are not reliable and discount their bulls***. Bruun Rasmusen is one of the few old auction houses that maintain any quality standards and can be relied on.
In Sweden, Bukowski's is old, revered and unreliable as concerns Danish, Norwegian and Finish furniture. They do know Swedish furniture however.
Who can you trust???
I have been collecting, catal...
I have been collecting, catalogs, books, magazines etc. for just this reason. If a design is not well known or documented, period and scholarly literature are the best way to get accurate attributions. The internet is a minefield of false and sketchy attributions, often so, for the sole purpose of enhancing value.
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