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11/10/2010 12:36 pm

Hello DA-ers,

The past week, I went to a sale in my hometown (Courtrai/Belgium). The belongings of an artist/designer were being sold. He worked a big period of his life for Decoene, a firm that produced several designs for Knoll, in Europe.
They were known for their knowledge and technical experiments with various woods.
A Bird-chair with ottoman was being sold. Everything in his house were probably prototypes. The Bird eventually went for 800? (without commission).

Now for my question:
I was in an old artist's house and saw a chair very similar to the bird. I tried to obtain it, but without luck so far.
I'm interested if this design was being copied much back in the days and wich brand would have produced this one?

Thanks in advance!
BJ

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11/10/2010 10:39 pm

This chair looks like...
This chair looks like Augusto Bozzi for Saporiti in Italy. There's another chair, danish, similar to this by Erik ????. Sorry, can't recall last name. But very similar form.

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13/10/2010 12:17 am

Dug around, and the other...
Dug around, and the other chairs I know of, sharing similarities with Bertoia's Bird are
Aulis Leinone (Finland)
Erik Andersen (the Erik I couldn't remember) & Palle Petersen Kontiki chairs

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13/10/2010 2:59 pm

allright! thanks woof-woof,...
allright! thanks woof-woof, I had totally forgotten the Saporiti design! where did you find the information on the other examples?
regards!

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14/10/2010 8:23 am

Ornamo for Aulis and I think...
Ornamo for Aulis and I think I was originally introduced to the Kontiki chair thru Grete Jalk's Dansk Mobelkunst...but you can also find it at Furniture Index.

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14/10/2010 12:07 pm

Oh, I like the reclining...
Oh, I like the reclining version of the Kontiki!
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