@leif-ericson. Thank you for that information. That is very helpful.Would it be too much to ask if you could post an image of that page?
If not, perhaps you would consider sending an image to the Danish Furniture Index so they can have it on file. Anything that can be added to the documentation about Madsen and Schubell will be much appreciated by everyone concerned and help dispel all this misinformation with regard to their designs.
Lexi
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@leif-ericson.No worries. Thank you for confirming those details.
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@herringbone. Nice one. I have just checked that catalogue and it would seem there is one more 🧐 🤨 .."Alma" bottom row:4th one (L-R)
Will keep my eyes open!!
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@herringbone @wesemael. Random find. George Tanier catalogue from 1960 ( ? abridged version,only 51 pages). Price list and list of contents.
Models MS-5 mentioned as well as MS-6.
Unfortunately only a small number of pages with images posted.( MS-6 there but no MS-5 😶 )
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@herringbone @wesemael. Random find. George Tanier catalogue from 1960 ( ? abridged version,only 51 pages). Price list and list of contents.
Models MS-5 mentioned as well as MS-6;on 1st page ( left hand side) of fold out- image 1.
Unfortunately only a small number of pages with images posted.( MS-6 there but no MS-5 😶 )
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Nice. Probably their only appearance on the American market. I always find it interesting, how sucessfull some of their models must have been for them, like MS6 which presumably was the most successful. And how other models just didn‘t sell at all.
"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it." (Arne Jacobsen)
And also this.
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Yes! I had seen that a while ago and discussed it in another place but forgot to update the discussion here. Fun fact: Mr. Oda also replied and admitted, that he probably made a mistake in ascribing the chair to Nanna Ditzel. I guess you have to take into account, that Oda started researching Danish furniture in the 70s and 80s, he published his major book on Danish chairs in the 90s. So he had no internet. He talked to people, to designers and dealers, he wrote letters and collected every information he could get. But there was no way to double check most of it. He recollected that a dealer sold him the chair in the 80s and told him that it was designed by Nanna Ditzel. Oda believed it. He wrote it in his book. And Nanna Ditzel, who got to read the book, for some reason never denied that it was her design. I guess we learn two things from that: Oda did a tremendous job in collecting chairs and researching the history of Danish design. But today, his standard work probably doesn't meet the standards of reliability.
"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it." (Arne Jacobsen)
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