Wegner 325

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the wegner 325 you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each wegner 325 for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, hardwood and metal. There are 8 variations of the antique or vintage wegner 325 you’re looking for, while we also have 2 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. Your living room may not be complete without a wegner 325 — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. A wegner 325, designed in the Scandinavian Modern, Modern or Mid-Century Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. You’ll likely find more than one wegner 325 that is appealing in its simplicity, but Hans J. Wegner, Andreas Tuck and Carl Hansen & Søn produced versions that are worth a look.

Prices for a wegner 325 start at $1,210 and top out at $47,272 with the average selling for $10,400.

Best known for his chairs and other seating pieces — though a master of many furniture types like sofas and tables — Hans Wegner was a prolific designer whose elegant, often ebullient, forms and devotion to the finest methods in joinery made "Danish Modern" a popular byword for stylish, well-made furniture in the mid-20th century.

Wegner considered himself a carpenter first and a furniture designer second. Like his peers Arne Jacobsen and Finn Juhl, Wegner believed that striking aesthetics in furniture were based on a foundation of practicality: a chair must be comfortable and sturdy before it is chic.

In keeping with that tenet, several of Hans Wegner’s best chair designs have their roots in traditional seating forms. The Peacock chair (designed in 1947) is a throne-like adaptation of the Windsor chair; pieces from the China chair series (begun in 1944) as well as the 1949 Wishbone chair, with its distinctive Y-shaped back splat, are derived from 17th-century Ming seating pieces, as is the upholstered Ox chair (1960). Wegner’s comfy Papa Bear chair (1951) is an almost surreally re-scaled English wingback chair.

Wegner’s most representative piece, the Round chair (1949), gained a footnote in political history when it was used on the TV stage of the first Kennedy-Nixon debate of 1960. That chair, along with Wegner’s more bravura designs — for example, the 1963 Shell chair, with its curved surfboard-shaped seat — bring a quietly sculptural presence to a room.  

Wegner was a designer who revered his primary material — wood — and it shows. His wood gathers patina and character with age; every Hans Wegner piece testifies to the life it has led.

Find vintage Hans Wegner lounge chairs, armchairs, daybeds and other furniture for sale on 1stDibs.