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In 2007, the great furniture (möbler) designer Hans Wegner passed away. He entered this world in Tonger, Denmark, 93 years ago and over time became the most successful and noticed individual at the Danish Modern school of design. His beautiful and unobtrusive style is composed of clean and simple lines.

Hans Wegner started his career as a woodworker. Unfortunately, he was called to serve his country. He continued his training at a school that specialized in technical skills. Then he became a student at the Copenhagen Architectural Academy as well as the School of Arts and Crafts for additional training. Later, he studied with the masters Erik Moller and Arne Jacobsen.

Designing chairs as a work of art and a comfortable piece of furniture (möbler) was his area of expertise. He believed that a chair should look good from every angle. Also, he felt it should be viewed without a front or back but instead with one continuous movement around the chair. He liked his chairs to have a simplicity and sophistication, but used a variety of materials and shapes to design the pieces.

He extended his thoughts beyond the fundamental style. Among the chairs to arise were the "peacock" style as well as complementary tables and furniture (möbler). He experimented with the comfort of his own body to style a valet piece. After his children were of age, he and his daughter worked together and are credited with creating the pole light in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Most of the furniture (wegner möbler) Hans Wegner is best known for is in fact chairs. One of the better known designs was the wegner ch25 (or Chair 25) created in 1950. He designed four chairs with woven style seats for Carl Hansen and Son, but this is the only one with rope weaving in both the seat and in the back. It is also uniquely engineered with the front legs being very straight and carrying most of the load. The back legs are angled and this lounge chair is much more stable than most of that type.

Chair 25 was designed with the use of several different woods, and had a paper rope for the seat and the back of the chair. Also interesting about the design is the side of the seat, which is made from one piece that curves and becomes the back legs. Often Chair 25 is grouped with wicker furniture (möbler), as some consider it to look wicker in style, but Wegner's design is in a league apart from flimsy wicker furnishings.

Catalogue names were given to Hans Wegner's work instead of design names. The PP203, for example, was an item seen by millions when used by television networks during the famous Kennedy-Nikon debates of 1960. The PP203 was chosen for its simple and clean lines, as well as being comfortable.

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Chairs are what Hans Wegner is best known for rather than any other different furniture (annorlunda mobler) he had designed, especially ch 25 (or Chair 25) which was created in 1950. He designed four chairs with woven style seats for Carl Hansen and Son; however this was the only one with rope weaving in the seat and the back. It is also uniquely engineered with the back legs are angled and the load bearing front legs are straight. This lounge chair is much more stable than other chairs of that type that have been constructed.