Hans Wegner: Danish Modern Icon

2007 marked the death of a great Danish furniture (möbler) designer, Hans J. Wegner. He was born in 1914 in Tonger, Denmark, and grew to be the most famous and successful member of the Danish Modern school of design. His style consists of clean, simple lines that meld together to be beautiful and dynamic.
Hans J Wegner began as a carpenter, but had his career interrupted by a time in military service. He trained in a technical school and later was enrolled at the Copenhagen Architectural Academy as well as the School of Arts and Crafts for professional training. Later, he worked under the masters Erik Moller and Arne Jacobsen.
He was most talented at constructing chairs, which he considered as much a work of art, as a place to sit. One of his beliefs was that chairs should appear excellent from every perspective, but there should be no back to the chair, just a continuous flow around the chair. Although he used a variety of shapes and materials, he wanted simple refined designs.
He extended his thoughts beyond the fundamental style. Among the chairs to arise were the "peacock" style as well as complementary tables and furniture . He experimented with the comfort of his own body to style a valet piece. After his children were of age, he and his daughter worked together and are credited with creating the pole light in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Much of the furniture Hans J. Wegner is renowned for are chairs. One of his better-known designs was the ch25 from 1950. He crafted four chairs with woven seats for Carl Hansen and Son, but this design was unique in having rope weaving in both the seat and the back of the chair, along with engineering that had the front legs being straight and bearing most of the load. The rear legs were angled, allowing greater stability than most other lounge chairs of its type.
Many types of wood were used in making Chair 25 which had its back and seat made of paper rope. The seat's side of chair 25 is a continuous curved piece that works as back legs. This chair is sometimes mistaken for wicker furniture , But the fact remains that Wegner's chair is totally different in its make from the conventional wicker furniture .
Catalogue names were given to Hans J Wegner's work instead of design names. The PP203, for example, was an item seen by millions when used by television networks during the famous Kennedy-Nikon debates of 1960. The PP203 was chosen for its simple and clean lines, as well as being comfortable.
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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;

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