Picked up this pair of chairs over the weekend. Not super in love with them, but they're mostly pretty nice. Comfortable. Whatever. Anyway, I was trying to figure out who made them, as they are unmarked. Then I find several other examples being sold as Kofod-Larsen for Selig. Mine don't have any medallions or anything, but they look exactly like others in listings with medallions. I know that Selig chairs weren't always marked, but these chairs strike me as generic enough that I'm sure other similar chairs were made. Does anybody have a catalog image of these chairs, or know where to find one? Thanks.
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Here's a current eBay listing with Selig medallion:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Danish-Mid-Century-Selig-Kofod-Larson-Barrel-Tub...
There are a few close up photos of details if you wanted to compare with yours to be 100% sure. The finger joint at the middle of the backrest support looks to be a signifying feature.
Selig catalogs show a fair number of pieces that are not Kofod Larsen. And even some of Selig's Danish-ish chairs were English too. In fact there is a lot in the catalog that I've never even seen in photos. It is kind of surprising given that so much of the Selig product we see today is a handful of designs.. Clearly a few Kofod Larsen chairs sold very well for Selig, but the same can not be said of lots of others of his designs in the catalog. This is speculative, but I would not be surprised if Selig discontinued designs pretty quickly when they did not sell well. And if you look at the number of drawings Kofod Larsen did for G-Plan, which seem never even to have been built, it is clear that Kofod Larsen could draw furniture all day long.
Still it is a jump from them being Selig-sold to them being Kofod-Larsen-designed.
While I am not claiming to be an expert in this, we had a similar discussion on the MCM group on Facebook. The consensus seemed to be that this chair really doesn't have any of the design similarities of other Kofod Larsen chairs. Until I see a catalog or ad attributing this to Larsen i personally would assume its an American design.
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While I believe Selig did manufacture pieces themselves in the US, the eBay chair (which appears to be identical to the OP's chair) has a Selig medallion that says "MADE AND FINISHED IN DENMARK" AND "IMPORTED BY SELIG". This is probably a good indication that it was made in Denmark.
The only outstanding attribution issue I see is whether it was designed by Kofod Larsen. Most Danish Selig chairs of that era were, but not all.
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