CH415 Coffee Table 🇩🇰 Carl Hansen

Hans J. Wegner designed the CH415 Coffee Table relatively late in his career for the Kastrup collection, named after Copenhagen airport. His idea was to make a small coffee table with a frame to match his CH402, CH403 and CH404 sofas designed for Kastrup Airport.
The table consists of a small round solid wood top supported by a frame with four slender stainless steel legs. The feet tilt slightly outwards to end vertically on the ground in round skates. It was particularly important to Wegner that the solid wood top was stable and that the light table rested firmly on the floor.
CH415 can easily be moved and used as a coffee table, side table as well as additional seating. The table, with its specially shaped steel frame, fits particularly well with Wegner's CH445 and Oculus Chair CH468, with similar legs.

Dimensions Ø55 x H44 cm
Base stainless steel
Tabletop solid wood

CH415 Coffee table
from

oiled oak

soaped 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

CH415 table – Carl Hansen