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not seen them before- maybe American with that in mind?

american?
wish I knew.
hopefully someone else will chime in with some thoughts on the chair. Anyone have a suggested circa for these?
thanks.

Gorgeous chairs.They...
Gorgeous chairs.
They look like they are half inspired by danish modern and half by the work of Sam Maloof, who would be a well known inspiration in the LA area. And maybe a few other inspirations that I am too dense to recognize. But I would guess an American woodworker, possibly in the LA area designed and made them.
Is it too obvious that 5 - 94 is the date: May 1994? And you have the numbered chairs 64 and 66 of that design?

thank you.
I think you're spot on. I will continue to research it further. A rather quick web search on Maloof generated the work of William Ng, Maloof student (?). In addition, I found a woodworking design school in California bearing the name of William Ng. I may be onto something now!
5-94...could be the date. I had thought the chairs to be older than Circa 90s.
I will follow up with addition information. In the meantime, please send your thoughts on the chair.
Thanks.

Also, the photos make the...
Also, the photos make the wood look much more like walnut. The color of the wood is very walnut. The grain, insofar as I can see it, looks like it might be another wood with more open, straight grain that has been stained the color of walnut. But I can barely see it.

wood
Wood identification is not my strong suit despite years of collecting.

Agree
Walnut would have been my first guess.

Not William Ng
Well, they are not William Ng chairs. I do see the Sam Maloof influence, so thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Will continue to research them.

I think the only challenge...
I think the only challenge you are going to find with the Sam Maloof influence is that his work has influence an enormous number of amateur and professional furniture makers in the US. So it doesn't narrow it much.

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You could try searching The Smithsonian collections, something similar might come up and point you in the right direction.
Or email Pritam and Eames, someone there might know.
http://collections.si.edu/search/

Leon Meyer
Maybe. Or maybe just another influence....
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/rocking-chairs/vintage-rocking-...

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Wow! this looks quite a bit like my chairs. I will research your lead and return with an update. Thank you all for narrowing my search. Your love for design is evident.

or maybe Whitney Meyer??
I just stumbled across the chair below.
It's dated 12-94 and bears many of the same hallmarks as the Leon Meyer rocking chair.
However, it has some noticeable differences. 1) The armrests and rockers are a continuous curved piece of steel 2) it has a headrest that extends beyond the regular chair 3) it is signed Whitney Meyer....
Of course, I have not been able to find out anything about a Whitney Meyer... any ideas?

Whitney Meyer
I wonder if Whitney Meyer is a relative of Leon Meyer? If so, family has skills. The markings, in what appears to be black sharpie, are similar to mine on my chair - - only that my chairs read: form 66 and form 64 followed by the initials WM. Let's get digging!