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Hans J. Wegner
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Wegner
A magnificent monograph celebrating the one hundredth birthday of legendary Danish furniture designer, Hans J. Wegner. The name Hans J. Wegner is synonymous with his iconic chair designs, which helped to popularise mid-century Danish design on an international scale. With more than 500 creations, Wegner's appreciation for natural materials and traditional building techniques makes his designs both beautiful and timeless.
Hans J. Wegner
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Watercolours
Hans Wegner's iconic furniture is rediscovered through his tactile and alluring watercolours. The Danish furniture designer Hans J. Wegner (1914-2007) is known and loved around the world for his sophisticated chairs - but few people are familiar with his masterly watercolours. Throughout his career, his workshop drawings were often finished as watercolours. On the one hand, his artisanal background linked him to tradition, while on the other hand his artistic temperament sought new and boundary-breaking paths in the search for the perfect chair. This books shows his watercolors in thematic chapters and delves into the artistic dimension of selected chairs by one of the 20th and the delicate structure of the textile. to a wide range of furniture designs, thecentury's greatest furniture designers.
Bruno Mathsson
A complete survey of the life and work of master designer Bruno Mathsson, whose archetypal Modernist chair is admired worldwide The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. Chairs that adapted to their occupant with graceful natural curves became his trademark and have been in continuous production for more than fifty years. In his less familiar architectural work, Mathsson (1907-1988) applied the same principles of innovative comfortable living. Throughout his work the connections between design and ergonomics, aesthetics and innovative materials, energy saving and environmental concerns resonate for designers today. This book surveys Mathsson's output as an architect and designer as well as his relationships with American architects and designers including Frank Lloyd-Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and Hans Knoll. Extensive illustrations include unpublished photographs of his Mathsson's work in situ.
The Danish Chair
Presents 110 Danish chairs and charts their success at home and abroad from the mid-20th century until the present day In the mid-20th century design became a cultural phenomenon that placed Denmark on the world map. Danish Design emerged in 1949 as a real brand, when American journalists started to write about Danish furniture in relation to a furniture exhibition by Snedkerlauget in Copenhagen. 'Den runde stol' made by Hans. J. Wegner was given the name 'The Chair'. This was not only the beginning of a great export adventure but also a challenge for the Danish designers, who became world recognized for their obsession with creating the perfect chair. The chair has always been the touchston...
The Lunning Prize
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Danish Chairs
Depicts and describes more than two hundred examples of twentieth century Danish chair design
