“You can make all sorts of things, but where is the logic in that? The thing is to make something simple and straightforward that does the job. And this form of simplicity is hard to achieve.” HAns J. Wegner
254 Hans J. Wegner 1914-2007 Set of eight ‘Cowhorn’ dining chairs, model no. JH 505, circa 1952 Teak, rosewood inlays, leather. Each: 73.8 x 58.6 x 47.2 cm (29 x 23 1/8 x 18 5/8 in.) Manufactured by Johannes Hansen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Each underside with manufacturer’s metal label impressed JOHANNES HANSEN/CABINET MAKER/COPENHAGEN-DENMARK/DESIGN: H.J. WEGNER. Estimate £70,000-90,000 $104,000-133,000 €95,900-123,000 provenance Dansk Møbelkunst Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Phillips de Pury & Company, London, ‘Nordic’, 27 September, 2012, lot 240 Acquired directly from the above by the present owner literature Henrik Sten Mølller, Tema Med Variationer: Hans J. Wegner’s Møbler, Tønder, 1979, p. 49 Grete Jalk, ed., Dansk Møbelkunst gennem 40 aar, Volume 3: 1947-1956, Copenhagen, 1987, p. 213 Jens Bernsen, Hans J. Wegner: om Design, exh. cat., Dansk Design Center, Copenhagen, 1995, p. 75 Christian Holmsted Olesen, Wegner: just one good chair, exh. cat., Design Museum Denmark, 2014, p. 136
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