| Furniture designers like Hans J. Wegner ones said | | | | and his very assignment was to draw the |
| "A chair is to have no backside. It should be | | | | furniture for the new city hall building in Aarhus |
| beautiful from all sides and angles." | | | | that Jacobsen would design. He went on to start |
| Some of the most beautiful and luxurious furniture | | | | his own company and partnered with Borge |
| ever to be produced has come out of Denmark. | | | | Mogensen and Erik Kold to draw furniture for the |
| The country seems to breed some of the most | | | | Danish grocery store chain FDB. This furniture - |
| innovative furniture designing minds ever and the | | | | inexpensive but of high quality - eventually made |
| entire world can bask in the luxury that these | | | | its way into the international market. |
| men and women produce. Simple lines and | | | | As Wegner's designs took hold around the world, |
| minimalist style that didn't lose functionality was | | | | he started working with PP Mobler, the company |
| the type of furniture that Hans J. Wegner | | | | that still produces his designs today and who he |
| preferred to design. | | | | almost exclusively designed for in later years. His |
| Born April 2, 1914 to a cobbler and his wife, | | | | famous Hoop Chair that was designed in 1965 |
| Wegner worked as a carpenter's child apprentice | | | | was produced by Mobler in 1985, completely |
| from a very young age. He served the | | | | crafted in wood and not with the steel base |
| mandatory military time the country of Denmark | | | | Wegner originally intended. Additionally, Wegner |
| required before going on to a technical college and | | | | designed for Johannes Hansen, Carl Handen |
| then the School of Arts and Crafts. He followed | | | | & Son, Fritz Hansen, Getama, Fredericia |
| this with time at the Architectural Academy in | | | | Stolefabrik and many more over the years. It |
| Copenhagen and even his earliest furniture designs | | | | was only within the last ten years of Wegner's life |
| - no doubt done for his college classes - show the | | | | that he stopped designing furniture and in the 93 |
| minimalist style he became known for. One of his | | | | years Wegner was alive, he designed over 500 |
| first designs was an armchair with sloping | | | | chairs. |
| armrests that reminds you of relaxed wrists. His | | | | Wegner passed away January 26, 2007 and his |
| approach to furniture design was by "stripping the | | | | furniture is still available on the market today. He |
| old chairs of their outer style and letting them | | | | won almost every major design honor and award |
| appear in their pure construction." | | | | throughout his career and was made honorary |
| A highly intelligent designer who understood the | | | | Royal designer for industry by the Royal Society |
| value of networking in the late 1930s and 1940s, | | | | of Arts in London, England. Many of Wegner's |
| Wegner attended many shows during his college | | | | pieces can be found in museums all over the |
| years. When he graduated from college, he was | | | | world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New |
| hired by Arne Jacobsen, another well known | | | | York City, NY, America, and Die Neue Samlung, |
| Danish furniture designer, at the drawing office | | | | Munich, Germany, and twenty other museums. |