Q: I recently purchased two pieces of furniture for the apartment my boyfriend and I are moving into in August. I got great deals on both pieces; I paid $100 for the dresser and $55 for the buffet. Neither pieces have any labels or markings on them and I wondered if anyone would be able to give me any information about them.
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the unpainted cabinet looks like it could be a Conant-Ball Russel Wright-designed piece.
It is hard to tell from the photo but the chest of drawers looks like the Malm dresser from IKEA (OMG, he said IKEA!). :P
If the chest of drawers is solid wood then it's not ikea - I'll be interested to find out what you learn because I have a very similar solid teak dresser, but longer, with 9 drawers.
This is Elizabeth, the one who owns the pieces. Both of the pieces of furniture are solid wood, and, @HLI, I think the dresser is teak and it has a rounded front.
The sliding door one looks like the bottom of a china cabinet that normally has glass sliding doors on top. I just saw one today.
Duane you are soooooo funny.
Whatever brand it is, DON'T PAINT IT.
@Montemalone, Don't worry, I don't plan on painting either pieces! The grain of the wood on them is too gorgeous to do anything more than oil.
Dresser makes me think vintage Bassett, but they used to sit up higher on spindly legs in the MC collections. Any evidence that it had legs at one point? Maybe this one is closer to the 70's . . .
Did you check the inside or backs of drawers for labels?
Another thought is Scandinavian Design.
The chest of drawers looks a little like Scottish post-war furniture maker Mcintosh (not to be confused with Charles Rennie Mackintosh) - try a google image search. Otherwise I would second the people who are suggesting Danish designs. Either way, excellent purchase.
I think the credenza might be a Paul McCobb piece--feel pretty sure, but typically his pieces are signed/labeled inside somewhere...
Looked again at your dresser, and thinking it might date from the Art Deco period. Lucky you!
#BuffettEnvy
All good suggestions so far, but is there any chance that it was custom-made/home-made? I only ask because I know my grandpa made most of his own mid-century furniture himself back in the day for his & my grandma's home, and those pieces are still gorgeous to this day (and a couple pieces are very close in style to that buffet).
buffet has paul mccobb bones, esp w/ doors & then drawers inside, but the legs look a bit too sensible; c. late 40's/early 50's. dresser w/bowed front not likely to be mccobb, @10 years younger than buffet.
Don't know the answer to this but I can say with almost 100% certainty that if these pieces were made by noted designer or design house they WILL have labels somewhere..try inside the drawers on the bottom or even stamped on the back. If they are really not signed/labeled anywhere they are most likely just mass manufactured furniture from "anywhere USA". Doesn't diminish their attractiveness one iota; they were still a great find..especially the credenza.