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“We’ve been dreaming of making a child-sized version of the iconic Wishbone Chair for years now, and we’re delighted with the result. This smaller version of the Wishbone Chair blends in perfectly with the rest of a household’s furniture and is an ideal gift idea for future design enthusiasts.”
- Knud Erik Hansen, CEO and third-generation owner of Carl Hansen & Søn.
The CH24 Birthday Edition 2023 commemorates the life and legacy of Hans J. Wegner. Crafted in celebration of the designer’s birthday on 2 April, his legendary Wishbone Chair is released in a limited edition.
Offered for the occasion, discover the CH24 Children’s Wishbone chair, in oiled FSC™-certified oak (FSC-C135991) and the seat in woven natural papercord.
Suitable for age 3+, the 1949 Whishbone chair has been reimagined for children. This complex, scultpural chair has been carefully scaled down to achieve the exacting proportions of the original. The result : a timeless and elegant addition to a bedroom or playroom
Each birthday edition is produced during a limited time only. The Children's chair will be available for purchase starting April 2 - and until the end of the year.
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An icon for future design enthusiasts
Known as ‘The Master of the Chair’ and designing over 500 chairs in his lifetime, Hans J. Wegner’s 1949 CH24 Wishbone Chair is considered by design enthusiasts all over the world as the most iconic.
The chair consists of 14 solid oak components designed in collaboration with Wegner Design Studio and crafted by skilled craftsmen at Carl Hansen & Søn. Taking over 100 steps to hand-finish and assemble, it features Wegner’s signature handwoven paper cord seat in an envelope pattern that takes a skilled craftsman one hour to achieve.
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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.
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
