The Secret Designers  

Yet, later—and to this day—N.O. Møller, the company designer for JL Møller, starts receiving credit for the design.  The conclusion I see is that this design started its life as a credited design by Arne Hovmand Olsen, and later it became an “in-house” design for JL Møller.  In this case Arne Hovmand Olsen’s role as the secret designer is not so secret, thanks to over a decade of Møller's and its relailers' catalogs and advertisements.

France and Søn model 622, the companion table to the Great Dane group
Is it completely an “in-house” design?  Or was Grete Jalk or some other designer the secret designer behind it?  I can only speculate that the catalog goes to maintain what I will call a certain linguistic distance between it and the Great Dane group, and this might suggest it is not secretly a Grete Jalk design. 

Here is another.  France and Søn models 640, 641, 642 & 643.  It is nearly always described as a Peter Hvidt and Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen design, and it very much looks like their other credited work, but here you can see in the catalog it is an “in-house” design.  I strongly suspect that the secret designers are Hvidt and Mølgaard, but so far there is no proof.

(proof that Ønskebo was a France and Søn representative)

Lots of great detective work there leif. Besides "in-house" design", there were other importers of danish furniture, such as Moreddi in long beach, CA, that had pieces produced and designed by someone. I've never been able to figure out who sourced their furniture, but it has the aesthetic of a jalk or vodder. A curiousity with Moreddi is that their lounge chairs are the only ones I've ever seen that had the seat bottom made from afrormosia. 90% of the time it is danish beech and the other 9.9% it is teak.

Thanks Leif, this is all very fascinating stuff. 

If anybody here has late 1950s to mid 1960's issues of Mobilia, Dansk Kunsthaandvaerk, Dansk Brugskunst, etc., I think that is the place to look.  I have been through many books, catalogs and all my Danish magazines- and all I was able to document was The Jupiter line.  I strongly believe that the 167/168 127/128 are Jalk, based on Lief's findings in the Ønskebo catalog, but it would be nice to see further period documentation of this credit.

I would really like to know why Finn Juhl's name often gets mentioned in regard to the Great Dane (Grand Danois) groups.  
 
There is even a literature reference that purports to suggest it is a reliable design credit: Mobilia number 100 from 1963.  For instance:  http://www.deconet.com/decopedia/template/seating/chaises-lounge/Grand-D...
Of course deconet is not authoritative at all. The credit must must be an error, perhaps it is based on loose wording referencing the 622 "companion" table.  Or some other error
But it is a loose end....

Sorry to be soskeptical-but II bet its another bogus attrubution.

Just picked a France & Son 127 chair today.
Is the Jalk attribution confirmed?

I have heard a rumor that it will be confirmed in the future that Great Dane models 127/128 were designed by Grete Jalk as updates to her earlier and extraordinarily similar model 117/118, or perhaps already could be confirmed, but I don't have the information.
I will be updating this thread when I do.

Thanks Leif. True that 117/118 and 127/128 look awfully similar. And giving the fact that 117/118 are credited to Jalk and that 128 is listed as a Jalk design in the furniture index, I see very little doubt in the fact that the 127 is indeed a design by Grete Jalk.