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Hans J. Wegner

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.

  • CH110 Desk
    CH110 Desk

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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    From $32,150
  • CH108 Coffee table 170 x 70cm
    CH108 Coffee table 170 x 70cm

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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  • CH106 Coffee table 95 x 95cm
    CH106 Coffee table 95 x 95cm

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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  • CH104 "100 Series" 4 seat sofa
    CH104

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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    From $30,300
  • CH103 "100 Series" 3 seat sofa
    CH103

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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  • CH07 Shell Chair
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    CH07 Shell Chair

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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    From $7,280
  • CH011 130x55cm coffee table
    CH011 130x55cm coffee table

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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  • CH008 88dia coffee table
    CH008 88dia coffee table

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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    From $5,020
  • CH008 78dia coffee table
    CH008 78dia coffee table

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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    From $4,520
  • CH008 100dia coffee table
    CH008 100dia coffee table

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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    From $6,020
  • CH006 900x1380/2360 extension table
    CH006 900x1380/2360 extension table

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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  • CH002 900x900/1880 extension table
    CH002 900x900/1880 extension table

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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  • CH30P Chair
    CH30P Chair

    Carl Hansen & Søn

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