I found this auction with less than a minute till end. By some kind of impulse I bid and won. I haven't seen the chairs yet, but I got into thinking about what to do with them and what are they.
I'd like to restore them that's obvious. My concern is that the seat cushions are gone. I don't know anything about the designer and name/model of the chair, that's why I don't know the shape and style of the cushions. (I've searched the google but nothing comes out), The chairs are of ASKO Finland they also carry a DUX name tag (isn't that strange?). Any help would be appreciated.
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I payed about 100$ on local...
I payed about 100$ on local counterpart of ebay - allegro (I'm located in Poland). I think they are worth it.
I suspect the chairs might be designed by Olie Borg or Aulis Leinonen (just a guess).
1- Ollie Borg - red lounge chair in the back
2,3- Aulis Leinonen - the only two designs of chairs I found.
I see some resemblance in style.
Solved
I did some more digging and I got my answer. These chairs were designed by Alf Svensson ca. 1950. More in the link. It is still a unsolved mystery why there are two producer tags on the chair. The chair in the link was produced by Ljungs Industrier Malmo. My chairs have DUX and ASKO stickers. Any thoughts? The seller told me that he brought the chairs from germany if it is of any clue.
http://www.blocket.se/stockholm/1950_t_Pop_fatoljer__STUDIO__av_Alf_Sven...
I've learned that Ljungs...
I've learned that Ljungs Industrier and DUX is the same. I've also learned that DUX company had many subcontractors. ASKO in Lahti, Finland being one of them (they also made some other furniture for DUX). I finaly got the chair and the tag says: DUX, ASKON tehtaat Lahti (ASKO factory Lahti). So this is clear. This chair is considered to be designed by Alf Svensson. I must agree on that, at least for now. It disturbes me a little that in the same time period he designed completly other things Te-Ve chair f.e. He was a creative director at that time and he took credit for other people's work. Edward Wormley sofa and Greta Magnusson Grossman's lamps that I know of. I'll write separate new topic on that someday.
The chair came with one cushion in navy blue. That color cover is removable with zipper and inside there is cushion in chair upholstery colour. I only got one cushion, so its either new upholstery for both chairs and cushions or new cushions in contrast colour.
I think I'd like them in gray wool.
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I'd be interested in knowing on what you base the statement:
"He was a creative director at that time and he took credit for other people's work. Edward Wormley sofa and Greta Magnusson Grossman's lamps that I know of."
I have seen the Wormley/Svensson attribution, but only as an attribution made by a Swedish dealer who was selling the sofa. They attributed the sofa to Alf Svensson and my guess is that they mistakingly did so simply because it was the name, together with Folke Ohlsson, most commonly associated with Dux in the 1950's. Svensson and Ohlsson designed, if not all, at least a whole lot of the furniture Dux made. As far as I'm aware, Alf Svensson was the creative director for Dux in Sweden, while Folke Ohlsson was his counter part in the US. I've even seen Svensson's designs being attributed to Folke Ohlsson in US advertisements from the time they were being introduced.
The Grossman attribution you mention I'm not aware of and would be interested in learning more about.
It is quite common that auction houses and dealers, knowingly or un-knowingly, wrongly attribute items to certain well known designers, but that doesn't mean the designer (who is long gone) tried to take credit for the design himself...
But if you have more info on this subject, I'd be interested in hearing it.
Is credited
I should have written: "is credited for". That would sound less harsh. I don't know and I have no idea if he is wrongly attributed nowdays (I suppose so) or the works of other designers were signed with his name. It maight be same thing as George Nelson & Irving Harper's marshmallow sofa (still being atributed to Nelson) or Alexander Girard & Marilyn Neuhart's dolls. As to the sofa itself, on the Decopedia site you can see that it is atributed to each of the designers separately. You can also see that on the scan of old catalog page the sofa is signed Alf Svensson.
http://www.deconet.com/decopedia/maker/284/Ljungs_industrier
More information
Some more information on the Edward Wormley sofa.
http://www.bukowskis.com/auctions/555/883-edward-wormley-soffa-new-york-...
Yes, I've seen that catalog...
Yes, I've seen that catalog as well and I believe it is simply an honest mistake they made. So yes, Alf gets credit for it, but I don't think it was his own doing.
I have seen another 1956 or 1957 catalog from Dux, where no designers are mentioned in relation to the specific pieces in the catalog, but both Wormley's, Svenssons, Ohlsons names are mentioned in the introduction as the designers behind the furniture in the catalog.
The Manhattan sofa is actually the only piece I have seen from Wormley for Dux and I believe it's a design he did for Dunbar, which was licensed by Dux.
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