Good morning and welcome to day 2 of this blog.
In our store we have a newly upholstered chair, a Starck wingback chair. When we first purchased the chair we were under the impression that maybe it was a Florence Knoll chair. Then we turned it over and discovered it had a stamp "MADE BY G.H.STARCK LTB".
I asked around and no one seemed to know anything about the maker of the chair. Then we came across 5 dinning room chairs also with the same stamp underneath. Then I googled it. Naturally I got millions of sites mentioning Phillip Starch chairs, but that wasn't the Starch I was looking for.
Eventually I came up with some info. There was a G. H. Starch that left his estate to a trust that would look after the aged. His original home in Durbanville, Cape Town. His name was George Henry Starck and his wife's name was Annie Starck and the old age home is called after his wife. In the text about the home there is a one liner that mentions that George Starck came to South Africa after World War 2 and made his money making furniture.
With a little more investigation I discovered that there was a Starck furniture factory in the Johannesburg area that now makes airoplane parts.
And that seems all I have found out about the man. If any one has any more information please feel free to share it with me.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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