CH88T
from 385,20 €
smoked oak / chrome
586,80 €
smoked oak / black
560,40 €
black / chrome
492 €
black
440 €
oiled beech / grey
440 €
anthracite grey
440 €
white
440 €
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
> colour painted beech
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 mark the 100th anniversary of Hans J. Wegner, Carl Hansen & Son has launched the CH88 chair – a 1955 design that has, to date, existed only as a project. A CH88 chair 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.
customize your CH88T chair
Backrest natural or colored wood
Seat natural or colored wood
Legs matt stainless steel (matt) – chrome (glossy) – epoxy (matt)
Dimensions W57 x D44.5 x H76.5 cm – seat height 44.5 cm
