CH008 Coffee Table 🇩🇰 Carl Hansen

The CH008 Coffee Table designed by Hans J. Wegner thoroughly exemplifies how he spared nothing in his pursuit of perfection and purification in all his designs.

Finding it as important to emphasize more hidden structural parts as the key visible elements, Wegner devoted the same amount of time and effort to designing the tabletop as he did to creating the frame that connects it to the three legs. The result is a piece, which all but transforms a practical element into an ornament in its own right.

The simple and elegant CH008 coffee table is crafted from solid wood and works beautifully with groups of other Wegner iconic furniture pieces, particularly his lounge chairs. It is available in three different sizes and heights for a variety of needs.

Diameters Ø78, Ø88 or Ø100 cm

Heights 44, 48 or 53 cm

tabletop Ø78 cm
(legs not included)

tabletop Ø88 cm
(legs not included)

tabletop Ø100 cm
(legs not included)

3 legs
(tabletop nonincluded)

soaped oak

white oiled oak

oiled oak

black painted oak

oiled walnut

▸ wood & finishes

Hans J. Wegner

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

CH008 table – Carl Hansen