Working in printing at National Geographic, Hans Wegner became very interested in paper usage and the best practices related to the printing industry. For example, an Egg Chair is made with only two pieces of leather, one for the front and one for the back, so there is no seam down the middle compared to many knock-offs out there. The tops of the lower case letters are below the midpoint of the upper case letters, a font style that is not the usual in furniture marks. The very faded (?) Please Architecture and Design The side profile is even more similar to a lot of other low back Danish lounge chairs. 37 x 20 3/4 x 20 3/4" (94 x 52.7 x 52.7 cm) Johannes Hansen, Denmark. Wegner helped identify Denmark’s global head for fashion furniture design, which is probably one of the chairs that helped him do this. Our site uses technology that is not supported by your browser, so it may not work correctly. We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history. The fact the M and D are capitalized, combined with the defined font, may help point us in the right direction. Papa Bear Chair by Hans J. Wegner – 1951 – AP19 – PP19. Hopefully you'll be that lucky.That is the trouble with this one, it has a lot of similarities to other designs.It definitely has similarities to Vodder and Juhl's designs for France, but is surely neither. Most other companies used all caps, and a pretty simple font.That was the one thing that struck me, too--the style of the "Made in Denmark". 577.2006. Designed in 1949, the Wishbone chair was the first collaboration between Hans Wegner and legendary chairmaker Carl Hansen. Can anyone please help to identify this chair? Hans J. Wegner CH 24 Style Y-Chair / Wishbone Chair is refined with a unique 1950 design style, a tribute to Wegner’s iconic design. Another popular timber was teak. 11 other works identified
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I bought an unmarked one in a Danish junk store--teak, knockdown--for about $13 in the late 90s and a Danish friend laughed at the time and said it was a "Mother chair"---a term they coined because all their 80+ year old mothers still have theirs bought in the 50s and 60s.So...there are a lot of them out there, and probably the majority are not by a well known designer or manufacturer. In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact All requests to license audio or video footage produced by MoMA should be addressed to Scala Archives at If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication or moma.org, please email By visiting our website or transacting with us, you agree to this. That's the bottom of my depth of knowledge on this point, though.Lost your password? Wishbone chairs are often referred to as “Y chairs” . So who made and designed it is still a completely open question.It might be interesting to see the knockdown hardware.Wait, I agree, Leif is amazing, but he did not tell you anything. A: Hans Wegner (1914-2007) was a Danish furniture designer best known for his innovative chair designs. It was just a random danish chair with box cushions. And chairs I didn’t recognize and bought for $100 each turned out to be worth $1,250 each when I sold them after their designer, Milo Baughman, had a resurgence of popularity. area on that one back leg is a bit worrisome but I had a teak chair that was faded in places to that degree and it came back just with oiling. The Wishbone chair is the last and most distinct of the series.. Similarities to Jalk's chiar for Glostrup, but not quite. Hans Wegner. ....... because I am pretty sure that he just commented that someone else was asking about the same chair, that is it.There were two other designers and one maker listed in that post, Peter Hvidt, and Grete Jalk for Poul Jeppesen. Maybe I am just high, but who do you think your chair is by? Oak and beech were very popular choices for many designers such as Wegner, Mogensen, Koch, and Panton. No other markings I assume?I don't know off the top of my head, I am sure I've seen them before though.No other markings at all, it's so frustrating trying to identify these chairs, but I appreciate your help!OMG!!
In 1944 Wegner began a series of chairs inspired by a portrait of Danish merchants sitting in traditional Ming chairs.
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