McCobb desk and mystery chair  

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Nice desk, not the one I was expecting

Mystery Chair picture
Please take a peek and ID who designed it if you can.

James...
Do you recognize what line this is? It doesn't look like a Planner to me.

PLANNER it is!
your desk is a planner group desk. it is a later design that was offered along side of the two drawer dowel leg version. i have had that desk with the planner foil lable.

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The chair just looks like a late 60's/70's dinette chair. Like the sets with one of those faux wood formica or smoky glass topped swag legged tables

Never seen that Mccobb desk...
Never seen that Mccobb desk before, thats interesting. The chair looks like cheap-o Montgomery Wards, circa 1976. I bought junk like that when I was a 18 year old!

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Not a MCCOBB desk...but it has a good look...the desk was drunk when they hooked up, its time for her to leave...

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OOPS it is Mccobb,I recall seeing one a long time ago you rarely see it a keeper...

azurechicken...
The desk has a designed by Paul McCobb label in the drawer, where its pictured on other desks on ebay. It doesn't look like a phony sticker, but I suppose it could be. The sticker looks exactly like all the ones I've seen pictured on Ebay--an exceptionally good copy if phoney. Also, the construction of the desk is quite good.
Regarding the chair, I'm kind of relieved no exceptional designer did it. Its not too pretty is it? 🙂 But they made me take it with the desk and a return trip to another thrift store is not much effort. 😉 The reasons I wondered if it might be something significant were: 1) it came with the desk; 2) it is exceptionally comfortable; 3)it is well made (better wheels, tensioners, etc., than I've seen on Monkey Wards stuff; and 4) I thought sure I'd seen something with the seatback/arm rest combination of this chair on some design web site or another.
Regardless, I'm only in for 40 bucks. At worst, it becomes my 8 year old's school desk. Ah, the beauty of thrift stores.

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I said its Mccobb in my second post whats interesting is Mccobbs stated ideal of keeping a line of furniture (forever I gather?)in production yet he altered his Planner group...watering down the Planner group,this desk design is a prime example of this process.

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pulls show this watering down mainstreaming...thick-ish, big-ish aluminium rings vs.little brass cones...

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All the Planner stuff is really well constructed esp. considering this was a low cost line.Your desk actually is the more "timeless"less 50s... as compared to the first permutation...40.00!

Yep, like a dope I didn't read the label beyond his name...
It says Planner Group plain as day. I would never make it in life as a detective...or a designer. 🙂
Interesting that you describe it as watered down. I've looked at the older desk and it actually seems MORE elegantly designed to me. Put another way, he seems to have gotten even closer to the essence of the design with this one. He paired away all the unnecessary frills of the design. Maybe he was cost cutting, or diluting, as you say, but to my eye it actually looks cleaner, leaner, and better proportioned than the earlier versions. But then I could be biased by the institution of property rights now. 🙂

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more mainstream to me. This could get lost in a 1000 similar desks.
The lovely one below you can spot in a nanosecond. It's special.