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With the Flag Halyard Chair, Hans Wegner paid a tribute to the Modernists like Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer. He proved at the same time, that he was also a master in the use of steel tubes. Despite this infidelity to wood, his favorite material, the Flag Halyard chair features a Wegnerien style. The flat surfaces are made with a long, single halyard flag, 240 meter long, covered with a longhaired sheepskin that comes to soften – and somehow contradict – the industrial coldness of the steel.
The flag line is made of natural linen woven around a core that is strong enough to avoid stretching over time. A skilled worker makes the weaving in about 14 hours. The Flag Halyard chair PP225 is available in natural and black linen, with a black, white or polished base.
Frame stainless steel – base polished, black or white
Flag halyard natural or black
Head cushion fabric or leather – strap in leather or jute
Sheepskin long-haired
To mark their 70th anniversary, PP Møbler is launching the pp225 in a limited edition of 70 pieces. These extraordinary chairs feature a vibrant Wegner yellow base, ash wood legs and a unique numbered plaque. This edition is made with a solid stainless steel frame, 240 metres of natural rope, a vegetable leather neck cushion and sumptuous white sheepskin. Wegner's decision to paint the base highlights the meeting point between the base and the seat frame, giving the impression that the seat is floating.
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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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