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Johs Aasbjerg - Excellent Furniture Co Catalog, 1960, 90 pages complete  

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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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15/08/2013 1:24 am  

I will be scanning and sharing this catalog here. Here, to begin with, are a few pages. There are larger images in the flickr set linked at the bottom. Image: 1: cover shot, showing three France & Søn easily recognized designs 2: introduction to the fine, hand-crafted construction of the Aasbjerg designs. His signature was the dovetailed corner on case pieces. Dovetailed corners are almost completely unique to the work of Johannes Aasbjerg. I know of only two other designers/makers who used dovetails in a piece (Mogens Koch/Rud. Rasmussen and Hans Wegner/Andreas Tuck). 3. Excellent Furniture Co. #102, and France and Søn #524 (designer?) http://www.flickr.com/photos/79973393@N02/sets/72157635074983146/
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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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15/08/2013 1:29 am  

Aasbjerg model #126 & 126
There is one currently "known" Aasbjerg design, which is the rectangular version of this coffee table. Here is the circular version.
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1: Excellent Furniture Co. #125 & #126.
2. A specimen sold without identification.
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/tables/coffee-tables-cocktail-tables/ro...


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15/08/2013 1:41 am  

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Nice documents.
Peter Hvidt/Søborg also used dovetails.


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15/08/2013 1:56 am  

leif ericson
I bet that dealer would be quite grateful if you were to share the attribution with them. Though the item is sold, they may want to let their customer know what they now own. I know I would.
A bit of good will often extended will often come back two fold.
BTW, very cool catalogue and info. Your pieces are delightful as well. Thanks for sharing.


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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15/08/2013 2:10 am  

Pegboard:
Just did so on your recommendation. Thanks for the suggestion. I am always interested in some goodwill.
I wouldn't have had this catalog or verified proof of the attribution of my pieces if it were for a lot of good will.
And I keep finding Aasbjerg pieces around the internet, and almost always they don't have attribution.


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15/08/2013 2:15 am  

I think PK also used corner d...
I think PK also used corner dovetails in a chest of drawers, a rare thing, not 100% on it though.


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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15/08/2013 2:24 am  

Heath:
I am not familiar with PK. link?


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15/08/2013 10:36 am  

Not dovetails
I think these are not dove tail joints at all. Those would be the more triangular ones that are typically used to attach drawer fronts to drawers. I know these as either box or finger Joints.
Edit for addition; After looking at the ad page for the cabinet, I do not know why these are being called dove tails. Perhaps it is an unusual blind type with the triangular portion internal. Woodies?


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15/08/2013 11:08 am  

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Lief, a link for you.
Perhaps the Koch cases were changed but here is a pic from klassik.dk showing them with a dovetail. Its hard to see but sometimes its only a very slight angle, also if you read the text it claims they are hand cut and the strongest construction ever! Which I doubt but hey its advertising.
http://www.rudrasmussen.com/own-furniture-collection/bookcasesstorage/p-...


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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15/08/2013 7:32 pm  

Dovetails and finger joints
These are absolutely dovetails on the Aasbjerg pieces. The photos posted so far just are from bad angles for seeing the angled half of the dovetail joint.
Onno: I have yet to see a Peter Hvidt piece that used dovetails. The Søborg pieces use what is called a finger or box joint, where each finger in the joint is cut at 90 degrees. By contrast, the dovetail has angled "fingers." But if there is a Hvidt piece out the with dovetails I'd love to see it. Also, there are very rare pieces of Nils Jonsson/Troeds with finger jointed cases, like the Hvidt pieces.


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15/08/2013 8:28 pm  

Finger joints
There is a TROEDS sideboard on E-BAY uk which shows the finger joints very clearly.

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15/08/2013 9:56 pm  

I too initially read the
black-and-white catalog photo(s) as finger joints. (Note that the front corner is treated to a miter -- as is the piece in the photo immediately above.) But it's possible that (unlike the above piece) the vertical pins are dovetails, in that early photo. I can't think of a reason for orienting the dovetailed pins one way vs the other -- though it could be argued that, absent glue, gravity would keep a case together when its angled pins were vertical rather than horizontal . . . ?
. . . if we're going to get all esoteric and stuff . . .


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16/08/2013 1:13 am  

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Hans Wegner/AP Stolen. The Papa Bear Chair


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16/08/2013 1:15 am  

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AP Stolen Models: 29, 27, & 26


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16/08/2013 1:17 am  

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France & Søn Models: 110 by Ole Wanscher & 109


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