Selig chairs identification? McCobb Directional Sofa?  

I found this. I guess it doesn't help me much at all. But huh.

I really don't know how to let go, do I?
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/sofas/directional-sofa-from-ga...
So I had basically abandoned much hope of figuring anything out with this sofa. Then I found this listing, and I'm confused. Custom Craft did all the initial Directional stuff, as far as I know, and here is a piece that looks, in shape, very much like mine. Different legs, different cushions, but the shape... strange.
Is it possible that Directional offered this design with a choice of legs, fabric, cushions, etc? And for how long? Anybody have any ideas on where I could continue my search? I'm ready to become a full-time furniture history detective, but I don't have the requisite resources at my ready, unfortunately. What do you people think? Am I crazy? Should this thread be deleted for my own mental health?

Hey mgee76 - thanks for posting about this sofa. It's been a year but maybe you are still active here. I've been doing some research on the same design myself, which brought me to your post. Oddly, I just acquired a sofa and chair with tags that kinda bridge the gap you have discovered through your efforts. These two pieces were purchased from an 88-year man and his 60-year old son who built and furnished their house in 1969-70. Both pieces were original to the décor. Both are tagged with the Directional-Sedgefield tags. The sofa is an design exact match to yours but it has different upholstery and the shorter leg set. The chair has the same shape and upholstery as the sofa, has the Directional Sedgefield tag, BUT has a different base completely, AND the base (legs and rails) matches the sofa in the link you provided above to the Directional Custom Craft Gallery Collection tagged sofa. Your thoughts about different base and leg availability is just what I was thinking too while researching these. And it looks like Directional carried the design beyond Custom Craft to Sedgefield, or had both making them simultaneously. I'm uploading pics - sorry the sofa angle is not good but it is the same as yours. I will try to get a better angle in the next few days.

Oh and I stumbled on one other link in a McCobb bio...
"In 1948 he gained recognition as a designer in NYC at Martin Feinman’s Modernage Furniture. While working at Modernage, he had a fortunate, chance encounter with B.G. Mesberg, a business man who became his marketing partner for a number of early furniture lines, with names such as Planner, Linear, and Perimeter, which were sold through department and furniture stores."
Mesberg, who founded Sedgefield in 1965 as you said earlier, was McCobb's marketing partner in the 50's and obviously had the connection with Directional. It seems likely that even if McCobb wasn't directly designing these pieces in the mid to late 60's for Sedgefield, Custom Craft, and/or Directional, that people closely connected to him were making slightly modified versions of his earlier work.

One more similar pair of chairs out there at least noted as Directional by Sedgefield:
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/club-chairs/pair-of-directiona...

Okay one last thing to post today. At the same house was this additional pair of rather large Sedgefield Directional Lounge Chairs. No luck on an identification or designer influence yet...

The have these Sedgefield Directional tag chairs in suede 

sold on 1 st dibs as for Milo Baughman. But Mccobb makes more sense with its history