wire chair  

Googling
"Fritz Hansen wire chairs," this chair shows up twice in the first 30 pages: the set at Treadway, and this single office chair at 1st Dibs. In both cases the design is "attributed" to or "in the style of" Vernor Panton . . . which means they don't know who designed it.
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=294879

The chair
doesn't appear in this (presumably exhaustive) collection of designs:
http://www.verner-panton.com/furniture/auctions/4108805/

It's not Platner, Panton, or Bertoia.
Also not Schindele, Tempestini, or Bloom.
Who else made wire chairs...? Oh, right. It's not Eames, either.
To me, it looks 1970s and Italian. I wonder what its upholstery was like.

Russell Woodard made wire...
Russell Woodard made wire chairs but certainly not by him. It could well be Italian, I am bored so will see what I can find (if anything).

commission
let's say these chairs were a special commission. sometime btween 1950's and late 1970's. Were they froma particular building? such as a library? who was the architect or architectural office for that building? Texas U, has its own architecture faculty, surely someone there has information, ....or might they want their chairs back??

I am certain they were manufa...
I am certain they were manufactured by Fritz Hansen, having now located some with labels. Designer is the only question now. I felt certain about Panton, being that he made several designs out of what seems to be the exact type of wire. However, this is still an assumption on my part.

"Dealers say
the darnedest things . . ."
"very much in the style of W. Platner " -- Ist Dibs. Oh, really ?

I don't believe the Platner...
I don't believe the Platner claim one bit. Platner's designs were more elegant and the wires much smaller in gauge and more plentiful, closer together. It's alo unlike Bertoia, Eames, Woodard et al. The wire is to my eye more like the Panton stuff. The material is almost like the grocery cart above.

looks like....
something from my childhood.

The more I am around this thi...
The more I am around this thing the more I like it. While it's not as graceful as a Bertoia, it has it's own appeal and it more comfortable. It would be great with pads, which they originally had.
It's not mine, btw, so say what you will. Interested to know what you think. Just for giggles.

Knoll Bertoia Side Chair, Unupholstered?
I can't see the illustration but these kind of look like shopping carts and they are made by Knoll.
(edited by DA - no advertising on the forum please)

Yliving
[edit: spam's been removed, so no need for my comment anymore]

Hi again
I saw a set of 4...
Hi again
I saw a set of 4 chairs, sell for 300 dollars, in 2006 and the ebay seller called them "PANTONOVA CHAIRS" and they did have Fritz Hansen labels on them. I saved the pictures of them in my FH saved pictures. They were chrome with the same type labels that show up on swan chairs.

It's not a Pantonova.
The Pantonova chairs look very different: