Description
kennedy chair and  round chair
solidwood frame
pu or leather upholstery for seat
designed by Hans J Wegner
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    Hans Jørgen Wegner, (April 2, ***4
- January *6, ***7), was one of the most innovative and prolific of
all Danish furniture designers that made mid-century Danish design
internationally popular. His work belongs to a modernist school
that preserves function. He is probably best known for his many
chairs of genuine craftmanship. Â Â Â Â
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   Early years
Born to a cobbler in Tønder, in southern Denmark, he got an early
start working as a child apprentice to a carpenter. After serving
in the military he went to technical college and then to the School
of Arts and crafts and the Architectural Academy in Copenhagen.
Even his earliest objects, like an armchair with sloping armrests
like relaxed wrists (a ***7 design for an exhibit at the Museum of
Decorative Arts), exhibited Wegner's approach of "stripping the old
chairs of their outer style and letting them appear in their pure
construction."
Mid years
Wegner worked for some time for Arne Jacobsen, another famous
Danish designer. Wegner was in charge of the furniture in the
Aarhus Municipal Hall, which Jacobsen designed. After some years
under Jacobsen, Wegner started his own company. Along with fellow
architect, he drew furniture for FDB (a Danish chain of grocery
stores), spearheaded by Erik Kold - who founded an organization of
Danish furniture makers that launched Danish design abroad.
Later years
In his later years Wegner became more attached to PP Møbler (which
produces most of his designs today) for whom many of his later
designs were made. He remained active throughout his life,
continually showing new original ideas and concepts. The Hoop
Chair, originally designed in ***5 with a steel tube base and
finally put into production made entirely in wood in ***5 (for PP
Møbler) is completely without precedent. Wegner has designed
furniture for PP Møbler, Johannes Hansen, Carl Hansen & Son,
Fritz Hansen, Getama, Fredericia Stolefabrik and others. He
designed over **0 chairs and retired from public life only in the
last decade of his life.