Hans Wegner: Danish Modern Icon

The furniture (möbler) designer Hans J Wegner passed away in 2007. Hans was born in 1914 in Tonger, Denmark and became a well known figure and successful graduate of the Danish Modern School of Design. His style was using simple and clean lines that worked together to create beautiful and unobtrusive furniture (möbler).

Hans J Wegner started out in carpentry, but that was interrupted by service in the military. Following this he trained in a technical school, later enrolling at Copenhagen Architectural Academy, as well as the School of Arts and Crafts for his professional training. Later on he worked under Erik Moller and Arne Jacobsen, both masters in the field.

He was most talented at constructing chairs, which he considered as much a work of art, as a place to sit. One of his beliefs was that chairs should appear excellent from every perspective, but there should be no back to the chair, just a continuous flow around the chair. Although he used a variety of shapes and materials, he wanted simple refined designs.

He extended his thoughts beyond the fundamental style. Among the chairs to arise were the "peacock" style as well as complementary tables and furniture (möbler). He experimented with the comfort of his own body to style a valet piece. After his children were of age, he and his daughter worked together and are credited with creating the pole light in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Chairs are what Hans J Wegner is best known for rather than his other furniture he had designed, especially ch25 (or Chair 25) which was created in 1950. He designed four chairs with woven style seats for Carl Hansen and Son; however this was the only one with rope weaving in the seat and the back. It is also uniquely engineered with the back legs are angled and the load bearing front legs are straight. This lounge chair is much more stable than other chairs of that type that have been constructed.

Many types of wood were used in making Chair 25 which had its back and seat made of paper rope. The seat's side of chair 25 is a continuous curved piece that works as back legs. This chair is sometimes mistaken for wicker furniture (möbler), But the fact remains that Wegner's chair is totally different in its make from the conventional wicker furniture (möbler).

Catalogue names were given to Hans J Wegner's work instead of design names. The PP203, for example, was an item seen by millions when used by television networks during the famous Kennedy-Nikon debates of 1960. The PP203 was chosen for its simple and clean lines, as well as being comfortable.

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