CH30 Chair 🇩🇰 Carl Hansen

Hans J. Wegner has dedicated his life trying to create the perfect chair, guided by a keen sense of aesthetics and functionality. A nice example of this quest is the CH30 Chair that is now reissued after having been eclipsed for several years.

The CH30 chair embodies Wegner’s style. Its simple, organic design is cleverly enhanced by some sophisticated details such as the cruciform hoods of the slightly arched backrest. It offers excellent comfort thanks to its padded seat and curved oval backrest, which tilts slightly backwards to ensure an ideal back support.

Designed without armrests, the CH30 chair takes up little space and can be stored under a table. Revised in close collaboration with Hans J. Wegner's design studio, the chair was raised two centimeters higher to accommodate the growing size of the population.

Dimensions L52 x P47 x H78 cm – Seat height 46 cm

Frame solid wood
backrest plywood
Seat foam + fabric or leather

CH30 Chair Oak
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CH30 Chair Walnut
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CH30 Chair Oak / Walnut
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oiled oak + leather Sif 93

black painted oak + leather Thor 350

oiled smoked oak + leather Thor 301

oiled oak + leather Thor 301

oiled smoked oak + leather Thor 307

oiled walnut + fabric Fiord 981

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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.

A few major characteristics about Hans J. Wegner:
- First a cabinetmaker, then a designer: he integrates exacting joinery techniques and exquisite forms.
- 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.

CH30 chair – Carl Hansen