Chairs with curved back rests: A reference list.  

Another Farstrup chair that had me puzzled. I have to admit that it looks more like a Hong chair ! So to start I apologize for not sticking to the remit of this thread. 😏 

Let me explain why I am posting it here. I have found these chairs with a Farstrup stamp showing a model number 213 while researching the Hong Kirkegaard chairs. Filed the images. I have not been able to find any info about a designer but felt it had some styling similarities to the Th. Harlev chair posted above by @herringbone 

Now we have started this thread , just thought I might add some information I have put together and post it here as I thought it might be relevant. Will try to keep it short.. IKEA and their Danish designers

 Searched on the forum and found an old thread by @mark737  ( Thanks)

https://designaddict.com/community/identification/sideboard-id/#post-170108

He mentioned a list of Danish designers who worked with Ikea and one name caught my eye. T.Harlev.

Found an image for that list and yes TH. Harlev is mentioned.

Mats Linder has posted 2 Ikea catalogues (1964/65) on his site and sure enough,what looks like my mystery model 213; called Rondo /Debut respectively. What do you think? Another TH. Harlev design?

Without an actual catalogue , advert etc from Farstrup we cannot be 100% sure, but it's a start !!

@lexi it is curious that the other three chairs on that page are all attributed to their designers. If Ikea listed Harlev amongst their Danish designers, why not attribute this chair to him? All of your reasoning makes sense to me, so this is more of a devil's advocate kind of observation.

@lexi, you are unbelievable. I can assure you that the chair was designed by Theodor Harlev, because I have reasearched him or had him researched for me, which would be the more appropriate phrasing in this case, quite extensively. It took months to get a useable picture of him, and you dig up some old IKEA publication with a perfect portrait  just like that!  🤣 

@herringbone. Google searching is always a bit hit and miss. There are days when you just keep hitting dead ends and other days when you type the magic word combo and all is revealed. 😲 

@frankielemmons. All discussion welcomed whether it's from the devil or it's advocate ,I'm not fussy. 😇 

Here's one that can definitely be attributed to Thorald Madsen Snedkeri and, most likely, Tove and Edvard Kindt-Larsen. Interestingly, the DFI has three different listings for this chair - two of which call it an armchair and one that labels it an easy chair. So maybe there was a version with different dimensions, but I can't tell from what's on the DFI.

The DFI says the attributions are found in a Mobilia from 1958 and Grete Jalk's 40 years of Danish Furniture Design. I haven't pulled the trigger on one of the new printings of the latter, so hopefully someone here has those volumes and can confirm.

@frankielemmons The dfi might be full of misattributions but the Grete Jalk book is a standard. You can trust them, if they refer to that. And I‘m not only writing that because I‘m on holiday and can‘t check. 

Here are a couple of easy ones by Helge Sibast for Sibast Mobler. 

Pic1: Number 7 Dining , 1953.  

Pic2: Number 9 Dining , 1956

Johannes Andersen for Uldum. The DFI cites Moblia as reference, so I guess it’s validated. 

Another Johannes Andersen chair .Model BA113.

Produced by Brdr. Andersen.Furniture Factory in Vejen, which was owned by Egon and Jens Andersen ( and not to be confused with the Brothers Andersens Furniture joinery in Aarhus (today Andersen Furniture in Hinnerup).

Image from Mobilia 1969.(source Loppefund;also source of the information re manufacturers )

Harry Ostergaard. Model 48.  Randers Mobelfabrik (DFI RP17482) .Reference Mobilia 1955. Unfortunately poor quality images on DFI .

Found one image of same chair on an auction website (sold).They mention a Randers A/S stamp as well as the Danish Furniture control mark

DFI also has the almost identical chair,( RP18288 Image 3 below) ; unknown model but it appears to have a "bolt" or something to the rear of the side seat support ,which also has a slightly different profile. This particular chair is apparently from 1954 and shown at the Fredericia Furniture Fair that year. So it's possible they modified the design for the 1955 ,Model 48 and that is the one that went into production

Bengt Ruda. Model Patrik. For IKEA. 

"Sonja" chair; designed by Johannes Anderson.Maker Mobelfabrikken Vamo, Sonderborg.

While you find these chairs with the Vamo stamp I have not been able to find literature to confirm it was designed by Johannes Andersen; that is until today. Anton Dam catalogue naming J.Andersen ( same catalogue where I found the Hong chairs ) I didn't crop the photo as I thought you might like to see the fabric choices available to customers !

Now to the Vamo stamp. I am posting two; the first is the one most people are familiar with. The 2nd one is hard to decipher but it looks like it says Wamo. Coincidently  having checked out Facebook, like @mark737, found an interesting image from 1950. P. Villadsen's factory  Wamo. As a bonus if you enlarge the image you can just about make out ,on the left hand side, a hoarding that reads Peter Villadsen.

Umpteenth edit:  Have just found this on Tidsskrift.dk. 1961 "Wamo ved Peter Villadsen, Sønderborg, 34" 

From a 1957 Vamo catalog ...

Jan Kuypers  "Nipigon" chair; made by Imperial Furniture Manufacturing  Company, Ltd.Canada; circa 1957.( not sure of date but did win an award from the National Industrial Design Committee ,NIDC, for this chair in 1957)

Came with or without arms. Could not find a chair with label but version with arms  is  documented in the magazine Canadian Art, Feb, 1959.

I have a well marked chair that is appropriate here, but I don't understand the marks so would appreciate any information about who and when made, if possible. I used to post here prior to the big change over. Now that I've reset my password, and now that it seems more active again here, hopefully I'll check in more often. (One more question everyone probably asks - does Aunt Mark post here anymore? Horny old dudes working in their basements want to know?)