Home > Carl Hansen > Carl Hansen Chairs > Wishbone chair CH24
Home > Carl Hansen > Carl Hansen Chairs > Wishbone chair CH24
-15% off with DESIGN15
The CH24 Wishbone Chair is the most famous and most sold chair designed by Hans J. Wegner. Beautiful from all angles, the CH24 Wishbone Chair is part of the "Chinese chairs" series, which were inspired by portraits of Danish merchants sitting in Ming chairs.Â
With a form that is uniquely its own, the iconic CH24 Wishbone Chair by Hans J. Wegner holds a special place in the world of modern design. When designing the CH24, Wegner chose to combine the back- and armrest into a single piece. To give stability to the steam-bent top and ensure comfortable support, Wegner developed the characteristic Y-shaped back that the Wishbone Chair is named after.
More than 100 steps are required to manufacture each Wishbone Chair, most of which are carried out by hand. The hand-woven seat alone takes a skilled craftsman about an hour to create, using approximately 120 meters of paper cord, the impressive durability and stability of which makes the chair both strong and long-lasting. The Wishbone Chair offers comfort and stability as well as satisfying aesthetic desires for distinctive, elegant form.Â
Over time, the Wishbone Chair has gained recognition as the ideal chair, capturing the essence of modern Danish design. Reflecting its continued success, Carl Hansen & son product CH24 chair for over half a century without interruption. The CH24 chair can be used as a chair for meals, office chair or side chair in a salon.
Dimensions L55 x P51 x H76 – Seat height 45 cm
Free samples (against deposit)
CH24 soaped beech
CH24 oiled beech
CH24 clear lacquered beech
-25%
Quick Ship
CH24 soaped oak
-25%
Quick Ship
CH24 oiled oak
CH24 smoked oiled oak
Quick Ship
CH24 white oiled oak
CH24 clear lacquered oak
CH24 oiled teak
-45%
CH24 oiled mahogany
CH24 oiled walnut
CH24 clear lacquered walnut
CH24 soaped ash
-25%
Quick Ship
CH24 black beech (smooth surface)
CH24 black oak (wood grain visible)
CH24 oiled oak
CH24 smoked oiled oak
CH24 white oiled oak
CH24 clear lacquered oak
CH24 soaped beech
CH24 clear lacquered beech
CH24 soaped ash
CH24 black painted oak (wood grain visible)
CH24 black painted beech (smooth surface)
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
