Design moment HANS WEGNER
Jul 21, 2019
2 minutes
Portraits of merchants in Ming chairs fascinated Danish furniture designer Hans Wegner (above). He was charmed by the antique Chinese chairs’ lacquered-timber construction, their lightness belying their strength. Inspired, he designed a series of seats with rounded timber backrests, clean profiles and a hint of the exotic. The earliest, the 1944 China chair, evolved into the
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