Design Addict

Cart

Carl Hansen sofa  

  RSS

Andersen
(@andersen)
Noble Member
Joined: 4 years ago
Posts: 273
01/10/2021 8:10 pm  

is it true that Carl Hansen ever produced a sofa for Wegner made of teak and rattan ? I can’t find any proof in the literature nor on the internet. There is a sofa for Getama but not for Hansen. 


Quote
leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
(@leif-ericson)
Illustrious Member
Joined: 15 years ago
Posts: 5660
01/10/2021 10:55 pm  

No.  The SalesCo companies (Carl Hansen, Andreas Tuck, AP Stolen, RY Møbler, and Getama) had their specialties.  Carl Hansen was the first company in so there is one exception to the rule, which is the sideboard that Carl Hansen produced, but otherwise Carl Hansen did unupholstered chairs.  Tuck did tables and desks.  AP Stolen did fixed upholstered chairs (i.e. high end upholstery).  RY did case pieces, with a little overlap in the desk department.  And Getama was the factory maker who did loose cushion lounge seating (loose cushions being low end upholstery by the standards of the day).  


ReplyQuote
Andersen
(@andersen)
Noble Member
Joined: 4 years ago
Posts: 273
02/10/2021 8:44 am  

What about this one ? 

1633157092-C7447B17-191B-4579-96FC-6C5DD58A1A98.jpeg

ReplyQuote
Andersen
(@andersen)
Noble Member
Joined: 4 years ago
Posts: 273
02/10/2021 8:46 am  

@lexi @herringbone @cdsilva Here the mark, if genuine.

1633157175-494A2000-46CE-4EBB-A907-DD3AB6C46731.jpeg

ReplyQuote
Andersen
(@andersen)
Noble Member
Joined: 4 years ago
Posts: 273
02/10/2021 11:48 am  

I also checked the Wegner book "just one good chair" and I did not find any trace of this couch.


ReplyQuote
Andersen
(@andersen)
Noble Member
Joined: 4 years ago
Posts: 273
02/10/2021 9:23 pm  

My apologies ! I must have been really blinded to not recognize this as a Hvidt piece. This let me think that someone has intentionally posted an image that has nothing to do with the couch just to get more value, but why ? That couch itself is already quite a nice piece without the Wegner name ! 


ReplyQuote
Raijin
(@raijin)
Estimable Member
Joined: 6 years ago
Posts: 85
03/10/2021 1:45 am  

I was gonna say, I just refinished a Peter Hvidt daybed and they look remarkably similar. lol

1633218359-IMG_4141.jpg

ReplyQuote
leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
(@leif-ericson)
Illustrious Member
Joined: 15 years ago
Posts: 5660
03/10/2021 5:13 pm  

Well all it would take to make that Hvidt & Mølgaard sofa into a widely acclaimed Hans Wegner design is for many people to repeat it.  That is all the truth there is to many design credits.  The only thing that really keeps that from happening is the fact that both pieces are almost always marked. 


ReplyQuote
Kyle Barrett
(@kyle-barrett)
Illustrious Member Moderator
Joined: 2026 years ago
Posts: 667
03/10/2021 8:26 pm  

The question I asked (but didn't post) myself yesterday evening was: where on the design was that stamp?


ReplyQuote
Andersen
(@andersen)
Noble Member
Joined: 4 years ago
Posts: 273
03/10/2021 8:56 pm  

have no idea, the add is gone. Maybe they just messed it up with various items they had. After all, I need to reconsider my knowledge about furniture if I can believe that sofa was made by Carl Hansen in the first place.


ReplyQuote
Herringbone
(@herringbone)
Illustrious Member Moderator
Joined: 2026 years ago
Posts: 1222
04/10/2021 6:25 pm  

@Andersen Don't worry. You'd have to be a savant to remember the thousands of pieces that have been discussed here or in literature, given that many of them look similar in one way or the other.  You re knowledge is okay as it is. :))

"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it." (Arne Jacobsen)


ReplyQuote
Andersen
(@andersen)
Noble Member
Joined: 4 years ago
Posts: 273
04/10/2021 9:08 pm  

thanks for your understanding @herringbone


ReplyQuote
Share:

If you need any help, please contact us at – info@designaddict.com

  
Working

Please Login or Register