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It isn't solid teak:
You can see the mirrored grain pattern of book-matched veneer on the top, which is a strong hint that it is veneer And then there is edge banding around it, which would break off with wood movement if it were solid, so it has to have a more stable substrate under veneer.
My Aasbjerg coffee table doesn't have blocks underneath that the legs screw into. It is solid teak with brass threaded inserts, and the legs have bolts sticking out the tops that go into the threaded inserts.
So I really don't know who it is but I don't think it is Aasbjerg....
Onno: re: Johs Aasbjerg
Johs Aasbjerg is a very obscure cabinetmaker whose specialty was solid teak pieces and very fine craftsmanship. I posted his 1960-61 catalog here not so long ago, as well as a number of specimen pieces I've found in my research:
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Good morning Leif, I know this catalog and I was always wondering who is meant by that, cause Johannes Aasbjerg is neither registered as designer nor manufacturer.
Maybe Aasbjerg was a cabinet maker but how his manufactory is called?
Anyway not Excellent Furniture Company, this company doesn't exist, Co. is an abbreviation for Copenhagen as it is written in the catalog.
Many dealers all over the world are attributing items to Johannes Aasbjerg as designer made by Excellent Furniture Company but that's nonsense, even Lauritz is doing that but we all know auctioneers such as Lauritz are often doing wrong attributions, too many bad-educated people without any special knowledge are working there.
Aasbjerg seems to be a real phenomenon, at least to me.
Onno:
Good morning!
I am not sure I understood all of your post, but I can assure you that the name used by the company was alternately: "Excellent Furniture" or "Excellent Furniture Company". See the attached receipt for an example with "company".
I also suspect, as a Danish company, there must have been a danish name associated with the company.
Based on what little I know the company marketed itself to English speakers and many of them seem to have been American military personnel. I think this is the reason for the English language name.
I would be interested in anything you know about Aasbjerg. I don't know how much of his product was sold in Germany. His receipts sometimes mention importation and shipping to Germany, England and the USA, but so far everything has turned up in the USA.
To the OP: sorry this is off the topic of your table.
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Yes, registered=listed, sorry for my bad English, neither Excellent Furniture Company nor Johannes Aasbjerg are listed in the furnitureindex or decopedia.
I suppose the "Excellent Furniture Company" is not the manufacturer but the distributor, cause I've never heard of it as company, furthermore the invoice is written in English and German and below it's indicated "This is to certify that above merchandise are of Danish origin."
A manufacturer wouldn't write this, but a distributor well.
But all these suggestions are only speculative.
And the other question remains open: who is Johannes Aasbjerg?
Who is Johs Aasbjerg
re: Who is Johs Aasbjerg?
I don't know much about the man himself, but I probably know more than most. This is what I know:
He was the proprietor of "Excellent Furniture Company." I have a piece of a page from another catalog that states this.
He also describes himself in it as a "skilled cabinetmaker of many years successful experience" and as a "designer-cabinetmaker"
His company had its own "plant" at which it produced its own pieces.
His company also sold the product of many other Danish "plants" as you can see in the 60s catalog.
He wholesaled his best known design: the rectangular bench/coffee table with black metal legs and teak feet, as well as the round version, to Illums Bolighus and so the design is in mid 60s Illums Bolighus catalogs with his name on it.
His company had a showroom and model danish modern home in Gentofte at 55 Gentoftegade.
There may have also been another showroom in Wiesbaden, Germany. I have a receipt that indicates this address.
Povl Dinesen is another similar example of a Danish reseller and producer. It may be that this was more common than we realize because the Danes were known to be cooperative with each other by today's standards of competition.
I assume he is not in the danish furniture index because it isn't complete and there are a number of unusual characteristics to the Aasbjerg phenomenon that make him especially easy to overlook after 50 years. It also hasn't been updated since 2010. And decopedia is avout as authoritative as Lauritz so there isn't much to say about that.
You would think that because of his presence in Illums Bolighus catalogs of the era he would be in the index. But I guess they don't have old Illums Bolighus catalogs.
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