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2007 marked the death of a great Danish furniture (möbler) designer, Hans J. Wegner. He was born in 1914 in Tonger, Denmark, and grew to be the most famous and successful member of the Danish Modern school of design. His style consists of clean, simple lines that meld together to be beautiful and dynamic.

Hans J Wegner began as a carpenter, but had his career interrupted by a time in military service. He trained in a technical school and later was enrolled at the Copenhagen Architectural Academy as well as the School of Arts and Crafts for professional training. Later, he worked under the masters Erik Moller and Arne Jacobsen.

He was most talented at constructing chairs, which he considered as much a work of art, as a place to sit. One of his beliefs was that chairs should appear excellent from every perspective, but there should be no back to the chair, just a continuous flow around the chair. Although he used a variety of shapes and materials, he wanted simple refined designs.

An innovation from 1970 was the pole light he created with his daughter. When he was entering competitions he varied from his basic chair concept and added his peacock design to make a more elaborate patterned piece of furniture . Beds, cabinets and tables were also included and after thoroughly testing it's usefulness and appearance on himself, he also designed a valet chair.

Chairs are what Hans J Wegner is best known for rather than his other furniture (wegner möbler) he had designed, especially wegner 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.

Chair number 25 was created in many types of wood and had a paper rope employed as the back and seat. Also, an intriguing aspect of the architectures involves the side of the seat, which involves an endless curved piece that emerges as the back legs. Many opinions state that chair number 25 closely resembles wicker furnishings and many times is grouped with it. However, this chair is superior to cheap wicker.

Hans J Wegner did not give his designs names, only catalogue numbers. One of his models, the PP203, was seen by millions when a dozen of them were purchased by the television networks and used in the famous Kennedy-Nixon election debates in 1960. They were chosen for their simple, clean lines, but all of them are also comfortable.

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