20th century Best Designers: Hans Wegner

Popular designs include the Peacock Chair (1945 – picture on the right), the Wishbone Chair (1949 – picture on the left), the Teddy Bear Chair (1951) and the Valet Chair (1953 – last picture).

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BRABBU’s Blog team of Editors has the pleasure of letting you know that we have a new rubric. If you are a design lover you will certainly enjoy it. Our new feature is about the 20^th century best designers. We’ll approach briefly their work and most iconic pieces, pieces that you probably recognize today but don’t associate to their designer.

The first personality we’ll be writing about is Hans Wegner, one of the most important figures of the 20^th century Danish Modernism. He is best known for using traditional techniques and knowledge as well as natural materials to create new forms. He developed and became a master of organic functionalism. Nowadays, his furniture pieces are produced using the same traditional craft techniques as in the 50s and 60s.

Hans Wegner focused in the design of chairs as he believed that chairs could stand on their own, outside of a furniture set. In the beginning of his work Hans explored and refined inspirations he took from the past and other cultures, particularly the Chinese and English, working in wood and woven rattan or leather. His chair collection alone totaled an incredible 500 prototypes and manufactured designs.

Popular designs include the Peacock Chair (1945 – picture on the right), the Wishbone Chair (1949 – picture on the left), the Teddy Bear Chair (1951) and the Valet Chair (1953 – last picture).

In 1949, Wegner designed a chair that he called The Round One that was the choice of seating for John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the televised presidential election debate in 1960. Eventually, American design critics came up with a new and more fitting name, simply calling it The Chair.

Hans Wegner was one of the 20th century best designers. His influential is huge on today’s designers. In fact, Wegner’s work is reinterpretade over and over again, in one of the most trendy interior design styles – the mid century modern furniture.

NOW WATCH:THE WING CHAIR BY HANS WEGNER

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