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The CH88P chair can be customized by the choice of the wood and the fabric / leather. You will find below links to help you choose the perfect upholstery. Do not hesitate to contact us to talk directly of your project: we have at your disposal a wide collection of wood, fabric and leather samples, we will gladly send it you free of charge (against deposit).

The CH468 Oculus chair is available in the full range of fabrics, as well as in Loke, Thor and Sif leathers.

fabrics & leathers

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

Hans J. Wegner

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woods and finishes

black painted beech

(smooth)

black painted oak

(wood grain visible)

smoked oak

soaped beech

clear lacquered beech

oiled beech

clear lacquered oak

oiled oak

white oiled oak

soaped oak

To know more about the woods, their finishes and care instructions, please visit th is page.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Hans J. Wegner, Carl Hansen & Søn has launched the CH88 chair – a 1955 design that has, to date, existed only as a project. A CH88 prototype was unveiled for the first time at the international H55 Exhibition in Helsingborg, organized by the Swedish Design Association, Föreningen Svensk Form. Here, Hans J. Wegner exhibited his furniture alongside other designers such as Alvar Aalto.