Recently acquired?  

vintage catalog pages...

@mvc. @cdsilva. That Mellemstrands chest came in  3, 5 and 7 drawer versions. Designed by Torbjorn Afdal.

Apparently had mirrors designed to go with the sets of drawers.

@cdsilva

Shit, I messed up the table, so no price for me.

But I have doubts about the Grete Jalk attribution, even though the tag is on it, because I think it difficult to believe that renowned designers have no qualms about copying others, because the resemblance is striking.

Lexi, I had assumed that Afdal designed that line with brass half-circle pulls, but it doesn't show up in any of my catalogs. Do you have a reference attribution for Afdal? Here are the stamp and label under my piece.

@cdsilva. No I don't. I check in on a Norwegian FB forum every now and then. What I like about it is that designers family members and former factory workers post there.So basically the information I provided is word of mouth from a member of the Mellemstrands family. Therefore not the definitive answer you are looking for; sorry. Good catalogues of Norwegian furniture seem to be thin on the ground.

Mmmmh ... it's not the first time that I am wrong about Mogensen. I recently assigned a bedside table to Mogensen and was rightly taught that it was a Hvidt design. And now I am wrong again.
I'm starting to believe that Mogensen doesn't even exist!

@lexi  @cdsilva

How can that be explained? Who the buck is Bruksbo?

@mvc. Per Tannum set up Bruksbo in 1941. It was basically an agency and design company. They employed a number of designers to draw for them,most notably Torbjorn Afdal and Rolf Hesland, but there were others.

They outsourced the manufacturing to quite a few furniture factories. The most well known ones were Mellemstrands and Nejestranda but as you have demonstrated there were many others.

Link to post on Mats Linder's site where you can find more information;

http://www.matslinder.no/2017/06/03/per-tannum-en-designgrunder-utenom-det-vanlige/.

If you visit  www.matslinder.no  and type Bruksbo into the search function you will find images of furniture by other designers.

I will go searching for other makers etc and keep you posted...

Thank you,@lexi, very interesting.

Edit: That just can't be true, the website of Mats Linder is boasting about a photo of Farah Diba, then-wife of the Iranian fascist Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Seems Mats Linder is not aware of this, or he is just politically naive.

@cdsilva. The Mellemstrand family member replied to my inquiry re the Afdal attribution.

Posting image he provided ( c 1970) which shows the full range of furniture in this series, including the mirrors!!.

Torbjorn Afdal designer: Flexbo range.

Excellent. Another nice find, lexi. 

Flexbo. I just realized how many Bruksbo design lines end in "-bo".

When I was cleaning/oiling all the new rosewood pieces yesterday, I noticed each drawer in this chest had "32-5" written on the underside. The 5 seems to refer to number of drawers for the chest (relevant as the veneer flitches are all sequential for the drawers), so I was guessing that the 32 referred to the model number. 

Thanks again.

I just did a google search for "Bruksbo Flexbo", which turned up exactly zero hits. Clearly, this line was not marketed widely.

I know this is an old message but I just found out who designed these trolls.  It was Ulla-Britt Alklid of Sweden---according to the internet, anyway.  I have several myself and have always loved them.  

She just recently died (Sept. 2022). 

I've never seen one with blue hair, only natural white.  

FAO .@ponyboy

@spanky So nice when you reappear every now and then. It‘s appreciated.