$2,500.00

SOLD to KIM within 7 days of being listed on the iNVISeDGE website in 2019 for $2500- that price was for the 3-seater sofa only (from North Brisbane). Dealers can list items like this in iNVISeDGE for 5% commission when the item sells (if we are supplied with good-quality photos). Use the links below if you have interest in buying OR SELLING a similar suite.

 

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SOLD to KIM within 7 days of being listed on this website for $2500 in 2019 (from North Brisbane) before it was listed on any other sales platform including social media. Keep following the NEWLY LISTED Category on this website.

The listed price here was for the 3-seater sofa only. 

EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE in Australia. BEAUTIFUL comfort. Stunning but restrained Danish design. The HAND-woven detailing in the leather upholstery gives it character that most Danish lounge suites don’t have. The leather is thick, luxurious and beautiful to touch- GUARANTEED to be FULL-GRAIN LEATHER- I’ve had a leather expert prove this to me. Full-Grain Leather is rarely used in any furniture anymore as it’s so expensive. Quality FULL-GRAIN leathers can retail for AU $300 a square metre today. This lounge suite is so high in quality they’ve also used FULL-GRAIN leather all over the back of each piece as well (which is never done anymore except for a few prestigious suites such as B & B Italia that can retail for AU $25,000 and more). Corrected and split leathers are used in virtually all furniture these days but these leathers are not the same (and barely can be called leather at all). Hopefully I’ll get a chance to write a blog about this one day. Pigmented full-grain leather (which this is) is more durable and holds up to use better than any other leather on the market. Full-grain leather is a LOW-MAINTENANCE item. It needs to be cleaned, particularly in summer when sweat and body oils can seep into the leather. It also needs to be moisturised with a good leather conditioner about 3 – 4 times a year depending on how often you use air conditioners etc (air-conditioning dries out leather). Cleaning and conditioning leather is NOT time-consuming (conditioning a 3-seater sofa will only take you about 5 minutes- a suite like this is certainly easier to care for than textile lounges which can stain easily and need specialised steam-cleans over time. Many people get enjoyment out of conditioning leather because this is when you really notice the difference in texture and grain patterns in each leather piece and it reminds you that full-grain leather is a FULLY-NATURAL product (and a by-product of the meat industry). Cows are farmed for meat not for leather- leather is a by-product from the beef industry and not the primary reason cattle is farmed.

This suite exhibits De Sede styling (particularly with the beautiful HAND-WOVEN detail around every edge) but this is a DANISH design by Aage Christiansen for Erhardsen & Andersen (designed in the early 1970’s). It was a successful design and is most commonly referred to as the “Matador” (but I’ve also seen this design labelled the Ambassador design). It boasts beautifully refined styling synonymous with all Danish furniture but with the hand-woven detailing it also has subtle wow-factor.

AGE. Very late 1970’s – early 1980. I have a receipt from when this suite was purchased but I can’t read any of the handwriting except the word, cognac (describing the colour of the leather). It was sold in a shop in Denmark (a retail shop in Vesterbrogade, the main shopping strip in Copenhagen). I can clearly read the prices. The FULL suite sold for the equivalent of AU $5500 back in February 1980 (24 750 D. Kroner). That’s out of Denmark- transport to Australia would put up this value up to about AU $6000 at that time. That was a small fortune in 1980. You could buy a house and land package in most Brisbane suburbs for $60,000 in 1980 (4 bedroom, 2 bathroom brick house). With inflation $6000 is worth about $20,000 today (I’ve checked this out on various websites). (But a $60,000 house and land package sold in 1980 is NOT worth $200,000 these days- more like $400,000!) Unfortunately all the letters on the receipt run into each other badly (it’s doctor’s scrawl!) and it’s in Danish so I can’t predict what letters could be. The old letter b for example could be a b or le or li. And then there’s the letter o with a dot on top which I can’t type into Google. The receipt is on a professional printed letterhead of the retail store it was purchased from- the suite was not purchased from the manufacturer.

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