1788 Easy Chair
1788 Easy Chair
1788 Easy Chair
1788 Easy Chair
1788 Easy Chair
1788 Easy Chair
1788 Easy Chair
1788 Easy Chair

1788 Easy Chair
Fredericia

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Wegner designed the sophisticated 1788 armchair in 1974. The lightweight wooden design with interchangeable cushions is ideal for both exclusive public spaces and private homes.

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W: 65,5 cm D: 70 cm H: 88 cm Wt: 10 kg Cbm: 0.45 cbm Sh: 43,5 cm

Width: 655 mm
Depth: 700 mm
Height: 880 mm

Timber:
Oak black lacquered
Oak lacquered
Oak soap
Oak clear oil

Upholstery available in a range of fabric and leather options. 

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Son of a shoe-maker in southern Jutland, Hans Wegner, finished his formal training as a cabinetmaker with master cabinetmaker Stahlberg in 1930 before starting at Teknologisk Institut in Copenhagen. He soon moved to the School of Arts and Crafts in the Danish capital where he became architect in 1938, and started teaching in 1946.

In 1940 he joined Arne Jacobsen and Erik MĆøller in Arhus, to design the furniture for the new Arhus city hall. He started to work with 'minister' cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen in 1940 and showed his first furniture in the famous Hansen store on Bredgade 65 in 1941. Johannes Hansen was more than twice as old as the 26 year old Wegner but the unique collaboration between the two became the undisputed backbone of Danish furniture design and the main reason for it's world wide recognition in the fifties and sixties. The Copenhagen Museum of Art and Industry acquired the first Wegner chair in 1942.

In 1943 he started his own design office and 1 year later designed the first of a long series of 'chinese' chairs inspired by portraits of Danish merchants sitting in Ming chairs for Fritz Hansen. In 1950 Wegner designed the ā€œWishbone Chairā€ produced by Carl Hansen & SĆøn in Odense which became the most successful of all Wegner chairs. Most well known for itā€™s use by Kennedy and Nixon in their famous CBS TV debate of 1960.

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