Hans Wegner Ry 100

Find many varieties of an authentic hans wegner ry 100 available at 1stDibs. A hans wegner ry 100 — often made from wood, hardwood and metal — can elevate any home. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect hans wegner ry 100 — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A hans wegner ry 100 made by Mid-Century Modern designers — as well as those associated with Scandinavian Modern — is very popular.

Prices for a hans wegner ry 100 can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $583 and can go as high as $9,688, while the average can fetch as much as $3,875.

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.

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