Hans Wegner - Brilliant Scandinavian Designer

The year 2007 marked the passing of a great furniture (möbler) designer, Hans J Wegner. He was born in Tonger, Denmark in 1914 and became recognized as the most successful and prominent figure in the Danish Modern School of Design. His style is based on clean and simple lines that work together to be beautiful and unobtrusive.

Hans J Wegner began his career choice as a carpenter only to have it interrupted to serve in the military. Wegner was enrolled in Copenhagen Architectural Academy as well as the School of Arts and Crafts. He trained in a technical school for a time, and received professional training. Later he worked learning from the masters Erik Moller and Arne Jacobsen.

Designing chairs as a work of art and a comfortable piece of furniture (möbler) was his area of expertise. He believed that a chair should look good from every angle. Also, he felt it should be viewed without a front or back but instead with one continuous movement around the chair. He liked his chairs to have a simplicity and sophistication, but used a variety of materials and shapes to design the pieces.

He did not restrict his work to totally basic chairs, though, making intricate designs such as his "peacock" style for design competitions, and also creating some beds, cabinets and tables. He created a valet chair after using himself as the guinea pig for how it looked and how well it did the intended job. Along with his daughter, he is also considered to have invented the pole light back in the 1970's.

Hans J Wegner is best known for his chair designs and he made four chairs with woven style seats for Carl Hansen and Son. But the chair 25, also known as ch 25 is one of his better designs which has rope weaving both in the seat and the back. The front legs carry most of the load and are very straight and the back legs are angled. This lounge chair is more stable than most other chairs of that type and is a very unique piece of furniture (wegner möbler).

Chair number 25 was created in many types of wood and had a paper rope employed as the back and seat. Also, an intriguing aspect of the architectures involves the side of the seat, which involves an endless curved piece that emerges as the back legs. Many opinions state that chair number 25 closely resembles wicker furnishings and many times is grouped with it. However, this chair is superior to cheap wicker.

Hans J Wegner preferred to use catalogue numbers for his creations instead of giving them conventional nicknames. A number of his PP203 models were picked by television executives because of their simplicity and cozy feel. As a result, a great many people saw them, especially during the presidential debates by Kennedy and Nixon.

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Chairs are what Hans J Wegner is best known for rather than the other home furnishings (hem mobler) 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 angled and the load bearing front legs being straight. This lounge chair is much more stable than other chairs of that type that have been constructed.