Featured Vintage Wooden Chair...Manufacturer-Origin Help??...MCM??

I bought it because I liked the Eames style molded plywood legs & arms...Any help appreciated.

 

Great looking vintage chair. Can't help with the maker, but I can see why you picked this one up! Hopefully someone can help ID the maker.

 

Reminds me a bit of Thonet but do not know if it is theirs.

 

It does have that Eames look, very nice.

I can only help by taking it off your hands.

 

I think it's a lot older than MCM. Thonet did his bent plywood thing in the 19th C. This chair has a shape similar to Victorian "captain's" chairs, but tweaked to use the bentwood.

 

Thanks for the starting point Brad....I found it!!

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/43769251_walter-gropius-thonet-eight-w199-chairs

 

problem for Europeans is that Gropius is Bauhaus/Dessau etc. and Thonet is German, but the split-off of the US branch has also sold Eastern-European copies of certain models. and nobody seems to know which are which. Quittenbaum München - one of my favorite auction houses - had that problem some time ago.
and then there's still JJ Kohn Vienna stuff around...

 

Thanks for the explanation, fid. Another Transatlantic confusion brought to light.

 

Thanks Fid...Is there any way to tell which this is??...It has neither the Thonet label or numbers,that I have seen on other examples.

 

sorry, I can't help you there. what you'd needed was a specialist who knows the minutes of Gropius' career in the US and the exact consequences of the split-up of Thonet.
what I found is a remark that the German Thonet items seem not saleable in the US. so another battlefield with copyrights etc.

 

So the chair not having a label could be a good thing?

 

why do you think so ?

 

I am a little confused on this??...The chairs,with labels or numbers & neither have been selling at auction & on the xBay for descent $$...Up for outrageous prices on 1stbs...I have sent pics to Wright auction & to Chicago Bauhaus associations...Maybe they can help...I`ve searched & could find no information on copies of these chairs...Wish I could....

 

please keep us posted.

 

No way of a definite attribution? No problems either way?

 

http://catalog.quittenbaum.de/index...ect66278&PHPSESSID=oshadl5b6oeldramfn7hlkv1h0

https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2...ght20.com&utm_campaign=search&utm_medium=grid

here they are "stamped":
https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2...ght20.com&utm_campaign=search&utm_medium=grid

I hope those specialists come up with anything.

 

I hope they do too!!...I`m waiting to hear from Wright (Same auction house ,with the result in your link) I have dealt with them,in the past & I live one block away from them...I can walk it over!!...I will keep you all informed....Thanks for your help & Interest!