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dcwilson
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20/08/2007 2:05 am  

carried his seat back through to his legs and frame on this chair, what an amazing chair he'd have ended up with. This chair is a classic example of a designer making have a break through and leaving an artifact behind that a contemporary designer might carry forward today.


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azurechicken (USA)
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20/08/2007 9:50 am  

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Awkward mix of thin ply...and solid wood.


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20/08/2007 10:27 am  

Swoopy
but hard to believe it's comfortable, with that extreme backward slant.
It's Mogensen, BTW.


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whitespike
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20/08/2007 10:33 am  

Awkward mix of thin ply...and solid wood.
Agreed!


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Robert Leach
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20/08/2007 1:23 pm  

To My Eye
To my eye, Carl Jacob's 'Jason' chair for Kanys was always more succesful than the Mogensen one


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Robert Leach
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20/08/2007 1:24 pm  

Kandya
Kandya
*it's early*


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21/08/2007 6:54 am  

Hmm
Which of those two chairs appeared first ? With maybe another view of the second chair, we could see if it too deserves the same criticism. I like what I see of it. . .


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Robert Leach
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21/08/2007 1:53 pm  

To
To the best of my knowledge, the Carl Jacobs chair, in this form, appeared in 1950
A metal legged version appeared about 3 years later.


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Robert Leach
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21/08/2007 4:48 pm  

Looks lke
Looks like the Mogensen predates it by one year


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