Hans J. Wegner Tables

Best known for his chairs and 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 Wegner’s best chair designs, seen in dealer listings below, 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.
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
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1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
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1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Wood, Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
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1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
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1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Steel
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
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1940s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Beech
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Stainless Steel
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Wood, Oak, Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Stainless Steel
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak, Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak, Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak, Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak, Oak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Beech, Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Cane, Teak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Rosewood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
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Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Hans J. Wegner Tables
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak, Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Brass
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Brass, Steel
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Formica, Oak, Teak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak, Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak, Teak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Oak, Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Metal
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Teak
1950s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Teak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hans J. Wegner Tables
Brass