The Hans Wegner Wishbone Chair

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Some chairs become classics. This one for instance. The Wishbone Chair by Hans Wegner. A Danish creation. Its lines are beautiful. It is often called the Y-chair, but its name is the wishbone chair.

Text below from the Carl Hansen & Søn website:

“The Wishbone Chair is perhaps Wegner’s most celebrated work. A light, attractive and comfortable dining chair with the characteristic Y-shaped back. The chair is a triumph of craftsmanship with a simple design and clean lines. Despite the chair’s straightforward appearance it takes more than 100 steps to make one. Amongst other things, the hand-woven seat consists of more than 120 meters of paper cord. Hans J. Wegner designed the Wishbone chair for Carl Hansen & Søn in 1949 and it has been in continuous production since 1950.”

Make sure you watch the video on their site about how the chair is done. Interesting watch. I didn’t for instance know that the material of the seats are paper-cords, hand-woven.

You still see this chair everywhere. Mainly used as a dining-chair. Comes in various colors (and there are lots of replicas out there too). It lives on.

wishbonechair, hans wegner

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(Every time I see the the name “Wishbone Chair”, I think of a book by Tad Williams called “The Dragonbone Chair”, which has nothing whatsoever to do with this chair…).

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