Chairs produced by Andreas Tuck  

Long story short:

Wegner's first factory collaborations were to produce a specific furniture type with a certain company. This would allow factories to be more efficient by producing larger volumes with fewer machines. Although not hard barriers, the pairings were:

Carl Hansen - frame-focused dining and lounge chairs

Andreas Tuck - tables

Getama - loose cushioned seating: sofas, beds, lounge chairs (they were originally a mattress company)

A.P. Stolen - integrated upholstered lounge chairs

Ry Mobler - casework/storage pieces

These five companies also formed a sales organization in 1951, Salesco, to market and sell the pieces together.

There are exceptions to the above, like the sabre-leg high sideboard by Carl Hansen.

. . . and the first sales rep for Salesco, none other than E Kold Christensen of Poul Kjaerholm fame. In fact, he left Salesco to focus on producing Kjaerholm designs.

Thanks, we should have these history lessons more often. But does this mean that Andreas Tuck did produce nothing but Wegner tables?

Well, Andreas Tuck almost entirely produced Hans Wegner tables, but in the early 1950s AT also produced a Frits Henningsen design, and then in the late 1960s AT started working with Nissen & Gehl. Salesco was a very dysfunctional organization, and it lost its ongoing relationship with HW as a designer fairly quickly. Getama maintained its relationship with HW for a long time.

I have always thought the sabre leg cabinet for Carl Hansen is interesting. I believe it was a very early design for CH, before the idea of spreading the designs across specialized factories developed, as it should have been an RY piece by the Salesco standard.