CH47 chair
CH47 chair
CH47 chair

CH47 chair
Carl Hansen & Søn

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From $2,500

Estimated lead time 20 weeks

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The CH47 chair was designed by Hans J. Wegner’s in 1965 and is a perfect example of his desire for simplicity, function and beauty in all his designs. The CH47 chair uses expert craftsmanship and quality, natural materials that highlight the inspiration Wegner drew from the Shaker movement. Its lightly reclined composition gives its overall form a dynamic, yet graceful, expression. The sculptural back design, together with the hand-woven, paper-cord seat, ensure comfortable sitting. The CH47 chair’s considered design, together with warm, natural materials used in its creation, ensure a chair that is perfect for a variety of spaces and functions, from dining rooms to entrance hallways and conference rooms. The chair is also available in the CH46 version with armrests.

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50W x 51D x 79H cm 

45cm seat height

Width: 500 mm
Depth: 510 mm
Height: 790 mm

Frame in solid oak

Natural or black papercord

Son of a shoe-maker in southern Jutland, Hans Wegner, finished his formal training as a cabinetmaker with master cabinetmaker Stahlberg in 1930 before starting at Teknologisk Institut in Copenhagen. He soon moved to the School of Arts and Crafts in the Danish capital where he became architect in 1938, and started teaching in 1946.

In 1940 he joined Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller in Arhus, to design the furniture for the new Arhus city hall. He started to work with 'minister' cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen in 1940 and showed his first furniture in the famous Hansen store on Bredgade 65 in 1941. Johannes Hansen was more than twice as old as the 26 year old Wegner but the unique collaboration between the two became the undisputed backbone of Danish furniture design and the main reason for it's world wide recognition in the fifties and sixties. The Copenhagen Museum of Art and Industry acquired the first Wegner chair in 1942.

In 1943 he started his own design office and 1 year later designed the first of a long series of 'chinese' chairs inspired by portraits of Danish merchants sitting in Ming chairs for Fritz Hansen. In 1950 Wegner designed the “Wishbone Chair” produced by Carl Hansen & Søn in Odense which became the most successful of all Wegner chairs. Most well known for it’s use by Kennedy and Nixon in their famous CBS TV debate of 1960.

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