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Hans Wegner was quite possible one of the most talented Danish furniture (danska möbler) designers of the modern age. Hans Wegner and his genius modern furniture designs allowed the path of Danish furniture (danska möbler) design to carve a smoother path and no longer did modern furniture have to have harsh lines and sharp edges. Hans Wegner softened the lines in his Danish furniture (danska möbler) designs and allowed people to have a choice of designs from that point on.
Hans Wegner and his Danish furniture (danska möbler) and especially his chairs (stol) would gain plenty of popularity during the 1950’s and the 1960’s. along with other Danish furniture (danska möbler) designers such as Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl and Borge Morgensen. All of these people together changed the way that the world viewed furniture. Many of the works that they created were often created out of soft blond woods that gave a more pleasant feel to many of the designs.
There were two great designs by the late Hans Wegner that were very popular. One of the designs was a chair (stol) that was shown in the year 1949. It was designed with a Y shaped back and epitomizes simplicity. This chair (stol) is called the “Wishbone” chair and sometimes it is called the Y back chair. It is a chair of simple elegance and comfort. This chair is still made to this day. The other chair that Hans Wegner created was also shown in the year 1949 and it was simply called the Chair or at times it was also called the Round Chair. This is a very modern designed chair (stol) as it has a seat, a back and arm rests that are made out of one piece of continuous wood in the shape of a semi circle. This chair (stol) or the Round Chair was actually used in a piece of history. The Kennedy –Nixon political debate in 1960, which was the first publicly televised political debate of American history, used these chairs. Today many of his Danish furniture designs are on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. And not only are the chairs (stol) on display but some are also used in the Museum’s restaurant.
Mr. Hans Wegner was born in the year 1914 and he was the son of a cobbler. He quickly learned his woodworking trade and in 1938 he was hired to help in the creation of the furniture of the town hall in Aarhus Denmark. While he was doing this project he met and fell in love with his future wife. He and his wife Inga had two daughters Marianne and Eva. Marianne worked with her father on Danish furniture for over twenty years. After years of creating and designing Danish furniture (danska möbler), Hans Wegner retired in the early 1990’s. His daughter Marianne took over the every day running of his work studio after he retired.
This was a man that filled his life with the things he loved. Those things were basically his wife and his children and of course furniture. For a talented designer of Danish furniture (danska möbler) like Hans Wegner it would be hard to give up working with wood and creating and designing new furniture every day. He kept up with the furniture designing and also with the creating up until his death on January 26th of the year 2006. Hans Wegner and his work can be remembered with a great admiration. His work can still be found today in other chairs (stol) and designs that are still being made today.
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