Carl Hansen & Søn 🇩🇰 CH111 Chair

CH111 Chair Carl Hansen & Søn Hans Wegner, 1970

Can a chair become more contemporary 40 years after it was designed? Introducing CH111 Chair, Wegner’s chair in steel and saddle leather. It looks exactly as it did when Wegner designed it in 1970; perhaps the rest of us have simply caught up in the meantime.

Dimensions 61 x 55 x H45 cm
Base stainless steel
Seat/back CMHR cold fireproof foam

CH111 Chair
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leather Loke – price group A

The Loke leather is a buffed, embossed ox hide with a coated surface. Hides used for this type of leather are sanded to uniform thickness and then embossed to achieve a uniform surface without visible scares or other marks. Finally, a top coating is added to give the leather a protective layer. This type of leather has a pleasant surface with low breathability. The advantages of Loke are that it requires low-maintenance and resists most stains and fading from sunlight. We recommend this type of leather for homeowners who want easy maintenance at the lowest possible cost, as well as for restaurants, hotels, public spaces etc. Loke is available in. many colors.

Loke 7050

Loke 7060

Loke 7100

Loke 7110

Loke 7140

Loke 7150

Loke 7160

Loke 7170

Loke 7210

Loke 7240

Loke 7270

Loke 7310

Loke 7732

Loke 7744

Loke 7748

Loke 7763

Loke 7766

leather Thor – price group B

Thor is a semi-aniline leather, with a natural unsanded grain, protected by a resistant finish (closed pores). The surface remains very homogeneous, but small marks and natural irregularities remain visible. The semi-aniline treatment consists of a layer of slightly opaque pigment added to a layer of translucent product, which makes it possible to homogenize the color and hide small defects. This leather offers an excellent compromise between quality and resistance. The maintenance is very easy and the touch is of good quality. Ideal for home use, even with children.

Thor 300

Thor 301

Thor 306

Thor 307

Thor 310

Thor 325

Thor 332

Thor 350

Thor 359

Thor 377

Thor 390

leather Sif – price group B

Sit is a full grain, uncoated pure aniline ox hide. Only the very finest hides are chosen. The tanning and dying processes are one and the same. No final pigmentation or coating are applied, so slight variations within hides and between hides may occur. Sif has the most exclusive touch and the highest breathability. It has the most natural surface structure which is whey scars or other marks may be visible. Be aware that the light or vegetal colours will age with patina and grace – however, they are also very susceptible to stains. The darker colours will fade somewhat if exposed to sunlight for a longer period of time. We recommend this type of leather for those who want the very best comfort and quality, and who love the graceful ageing of the very best leather.

Sif 90

Sif 91

Sif 92

Sif 93

Sif 95

Sif 98

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

CH111 chair – Carl Hansen