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The series of extendable oval wooden tables by Hans Wegner includes three models, CH337, CH338 and CH339, which differ in length, but share the same comfortable width 115 a system of glides allowing up to four 60 cm wide extensions (in wood or MDF), inserted in the middle of the tabletop. Thus, the lengths vont from 140 to 480 cm.
Drawn par Hans J. Wegner en 1962, ces triple tables have been produites qu'en très petite quantité avant leur réédition par Hansen & Søn en 2011. They figure from among the best sellers of the brand. A noter que each table is manufactured in un same arbre - oak , walnut or beech centenary, issues de certified forests - so as to ensure the aesthetic homogeneity of the wood.
Width 115 cm – Height 72 cm
Length CH337 140 cm CH338 200 cm CH339 240 cm
Extension leaves 60 x 115 cm. Solid wood or MDF (black or grey)
Materials solid beech, oak or walnut Tabletop thickness 26 mm
Dimensions w/o extension leaf 140 x 115 x H72 cm
Extension leaves 60 x 115 cm (accept 2 extension leaves)
CH337 Table
from
CH337 table, soaped oak
CH337 table, oiled oak
CH337 table, oiled mahogany
CH337 table, oiled walnut
Dimensions w/o extension leaf 200 x 115 x H72 cm
Extension leaves 60 x 115 cm (accept 2 or 4 extension leaves)
CH338 Table
from
CH338 table, soaped oak
CH338 table, oiled oak
CH338 table, oiled mahogany
CH338 table, oiled walnut
Dimensions w/o extension leaf 240 x 115 x H72 cm
Extension leaves 60 x 115 cm (accept 2 or 4 extension leaves)
CH339 Table
from
CH339 table, soaped oak
CH339 table, oiled oak
CH339 table, oiled mahogany
CH339 table, oiled walnut
The extensions are available in solid wood and in black or grey MDF. Note that if you order the solid wood extension at the same time as the table, it will come from the same tree and will have the same grain and colour. If not, the appearance may vary.
The number in brackets indicates the number of extension(s).
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
