Structure Chair

No chair has caused so much confusion in the marketplace as the Structure Chair. This chair was produced in the 1990s by Interior Crafts Inc., in Chicago for the men’s clothing store chain in the USA called, Structure. The chair was an unlicensed reproduction.

The fact that this chair has a strong resemblance to the original Finn Juhl design made this chair easy for dubious dealers to pass off as a ‘1950s Baker Chieftain’, which is exactly what happened in the secondary auction market in the early 2000s. The chair even showed up with Baker medallions fixed to the frame. This made it easy for people to believe that these chairs were in fact, the Baker 1950s chairs. The chair even made it into Taschen’s Scandinavian Modern Design book, although it was once again incorrectly attributed to Niels Vodder.

Photo: Vintage Baker medallion attached to the frame to mislead buyers.

In 2018 the real story became public in social media. Cracks began to form in the connection to the Baker 1950s production, and after the question was made public on Instagram, first hand accounts of people connected to the clothing store emerged, and the false ‘Baker’ narrative collapsed.