Set of 6 Wegner Oak Carver Dining Armchairs

Hans Wegner for Getama - 6 x oak and royal blue wool carver arm chairs, circa 1960s Hans J. Wegner was born in 1914 in Tønder, Denmark, the son of a shoemaker. He moved to Copenhagen as a 20 year-old, and attended the School of Arts and Crafts from 1936 to 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. Since that time, Wegner 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. These striking oak and royal blue woollen carver dining armchairs exemplify Wegner’s pure and simple design brilliance. Their build quality is second to none. Each armchair is in very good vintage condition, with only minor signs of wear. The approximate dimensions of each of these iconic chairs are: - Height 81cm; - Width 65cm; - Depth 60cm.

Condition Details:
In very good condition showing only a few signs of wear such as small marks or scuffs.