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randomer
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16/07/2014 3:06 pm  

Found this recently... Can anyone tell me anything about the provenance of this chair?


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EamesJunkie
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17/07/2014 1:48 am  

Robs..
Robsjohn Gibbings did a version of the Klismos chair. This isn't his design but that might point you in the right direction.


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randomer
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17/07/2014 4:12 pm  

Thanks for that. I'd...
Thanks for that.
I'd looked into his design first, as it was one of the more popular in recent times. However, his seems to be much better made.
This design is fairly clunky (practical?) in comparison. It definitely looks later.
Maybe it's by the same manufacturer, after Robsjohn Gibbings?
There's a picture below that's very similar, but given 1st Dibs history it could have just as easily been misappropriated to RG on 1st Dibs?
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/chairs/pair-of-robsjohn-gibbing...


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randomer
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22/07/2014 7:08 pm  

Could this be a later Danish ...
Could this be a later Danish Klismos inspired by the drawings of Ole Wanscher in is Mobeltyper, 1932?
Feel free to let me know if I'm clutching at straws here!!
"Images of the Classical Period chair depicted in this funerary monument would have been familiar and accessible to 20th century Danish designers and cabinetmakers through the publications of furniture designer Ole Wanscher, as early as his Møbeltyper of 1932, which included a scale line drawing of the klismos."


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