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The Chair – Kennedy chair

PP Møbler – Hans J.Wegner, 1949

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PP Møbler, Danish Design

"The Round One", as Hans J. Wegner was used to call it, is probably Wegner's furniture the most famous in the world. 

Less than a year after its creation, the American magazine Interiors devoted it a special issue, which marked the beginning of the international carrier of Hans Wegner. The latter, with his usual modesty, said: "This chair could have been created one hundred years ago – nothing new". 

The PP503 chair, designed one year latter, differs from the PP501 by its upholstered seat. John Kennedy, who suffered back, adopted it for his televised debate with Nixon in 1960, contributing to the celebrity of the chair which was then renamed The Chair and joined permanently the White House.

Wood oak, walnut, ash or cherry

Dimensions W63 x D52 x H76 cm - seat height 44 or 45 cm

PP503, upholstered seat
from

PP501, cane seat
from

pp503 oiled oak

pp503 soaped oak

pp501 soaped ash

pp501 soaped oak

pp501 soaped ash

pp503 soaped ash

Free samples (against deposit)
Wood, fabric, leather

WOOD

soaped oak

white oiled oak

oiled oak

oiled walnut

oiled cherry

soaped ash

white oiled oak

LEATHERS 

Aniline leather Vegetal by Sørensen – colour Nature

Aniline leather Elegance by Sørensen – colours Indian Red, Black, Walnut, Mocca

Aniline leather Vacona by Camo – colours Sahara, Cognac, Teak, Marble, Indigo Blue, Fango

Hans J. Wegner

Hans J. Wegner was born in 1914 in Tønder, Denmark, the son of a shoemaker. At the age of 17, he finished his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker with H. F. Stahlberg, in whose workshops Wegner’s first design experiments took form. He moved to Copenhagen as a 20 year-old, and attended the School of Arts and Crafts from 1936 – 1938 before he began working as an architect.

As a young architect, Wegner joined Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller in Århus, working on furniture design for the new Århus city hall in 1940. It was during the same year that Wegner began collaborating with master cabinetmaker, Johannes Hansen, who was a driving force in bringing new furniture design to the Danish public.

The Copenhagen Museum of Art and Industry acquired its first Wegner chair in 1942.

Wegner started his own design office in 1943. It was in 1944 that he designed the first “Chinese chair” in a series of new chairs that were inspired by portraits of Danish merchants sitting in Ming chairs. One of these chairs, the “Wishbone Chair”, designed in 1949 and produced by Carl Hansen & Son in Odense since 1950, became the most successful of all Wegner chairs.

Among Danish furniture designers, Hans J. Wegner is considered one of the most creative and productive. He has received practically every major recognition given to designers, including the Lunning prize, the grand prix of the Milan Triennale, Sweden’s Prince Eugen medal and the Danish Eckersberg medal. Wegner is an honorary Royal designer for industry of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Almost all of the world’s major design museums – from The Museum of Modern Art in New York to Die Neue Sammlung in Munich – include his furniture in their collections.

Hans J. Wegner died in Denmark in January, 2007.

Hans J. Wegner’s  contribution to Danish Modern:

 - First a cabinetmaker, then a designer: integrates exacting joinery techniques and exquisite form.

- A deep respect for wood and its characteristics – and an abiding curiosity about other natural materials

- Brings an organic, natural softness to formalistic minimalism

- Generally regarded as ”the master of the chair”, with more than 400 chair designs to his name

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