Archive for September 14th, 2009

Hans Wegner – Master Of Chair Design

In 2007, the great furniture designer Hans J. Wegner passed away. He came into this world in Tonger, Denmark, 93 years ago and over time became the most successful and noticed people in the Danish Modern School of Design. It's warm and unobtrusive style is clean and simple lines.

Hans J. Wegner began his career as a carpenter, only to have it interrupted to serve in the army. Wegner was enrolled Architectural Academy in Copenhagen and the Schoolof Arts and Crafts. He completed his education in a specialized school for a time, and received training. Later, he worked to learn from the masters Arne Jacobsen and Erik Moller.

What he was very competent to build chairs. He considered these items not only in terms of their functionality, but as a sculpture. This philosophy extends to design, so there should be no "back" to the structure. No matter which way saw the chair, it would be "entering consider. Not onlythe finished product should be liquid, it should never be bored. The building would be a variety of shapes and parts.

He does not have to be limited to his work a very basic chairs, though, so that complex designs such as his "peacock" style of design competitions, and also the development of some beds, wardrobes and tables. He created a servant chair after using himself as guinea pig for what he saw and how well it has the intended function. Together with his daughter, he is also regarded as ifinvented the light poles back in the 1970s.

Much of the furniture (wegner MOBLER) Hans J. Wegner is known for the chairs. One of his most famous creations was the wegner CH25 of 1950. He designed four chairs with woven seats for Carl Hansen and Son, but the design has been with rope weaving in both the seat and the back of the chair, along with technology that was unique in the front legs straight and with most of the load. The angled rear legs, so that a larger Stability than most other chairs of its type.

Chair 25 has been designed with the use of several different woods and had a paper rope for the seat and the back of the chair. Also interesting is the design of the side of the seat, which is made from a piece that curves and the hind legs. Chair 25 is often combined with wicker furniture (MOBLER), as some think it's Wicker look like in the way, but Wegner design is in a league apart from thin> Wicker furnishings.

Catalog names were working to Hans J. Wegner, rather than design given names. The PP203, for example, was an article of millions, if used by broadcasters during the famous Nikon Kennedy debates of 1960 times. The PP203 has been chosen because of its simple and clean lines, and comfortable to be.

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