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10/02/2014 5:21 am

Hello from a very chilly northern outpost...luckily I received this lovely chair today which warms me to the core!
I have posted pictures and welcome comments.
Only mark is a 'M' embossed on the underside. The legs are black and have a ribbed effect...the bottom otherwise very closely resembles an Arne Jacobsen/fritz hansen chair I had but hmmmm....CON-founded!
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10/02/2014 5:31 am

I've seen them like that...
I've seen them like that before. Maybe made for commercial use?

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10/02/2014 5:49 am

the 'M'
krenit...thanks for the comment...do you mean that you have seen fritz hansen chairs like this or just chairs like this?
here is a pic of the 'M'

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10/02/2014 6:09 am

Based on that "M" it seems qu...
Based on that "M" it seems quite likely it is as stamped letters like that are common on scandinavian furniture. And not something that the Americans did much if at all.

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10/02/2014 11:47 am

That's just an Arne Jacobsen 3103 Hammer chair for Fritz Hansen with vinyl covering on the legs.

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10/02/2014 5:56 pm

Hi
Don't know the significance of the "M", but that is a Fritz Hansen Jacobsen chair, as stated above. Can you make out the label on the metal cap?

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12/02/2014 11:38 pm

arne jacobsen/fritz hansen/3101 'hammer' chair (Confounded no more)!
BOOM! Thank you Krenit, Leif Ericson, woodywood and vintagestique for your input and shared information!
The cover for the central piece the legs radiate from on the underside is missing...that is what would have had the marks on it...the little label thing you see in the pic is some cloth tape with the previous owners name on it 😉
I am still kind of curious what that embossed in the wood on the underside 'M' means ...but no longer confounded...thanks
From the fritz hansen website:
"Model 3103
DESIGNER
Arne Jacobsen, 1957
DESCRIPTION
Arne Jacobsen was open to criticism, and when it was maintained that his chairs lacked lumbar support, he approached Danish professor Snorresen, then ergonomics expert. The result was model 3103, which had a sharper bend in the backrest. The model also came as a children's chair. The series was discontinued in the 1960s.
DIMENSIONS
TH: 78 cm
W: 48 cm
D: 46 cm
SH: 44 cm"