Hans Wegner Wishbone Table

Find many varieties of an authentic hans wegner wishbone table available at 1stDibs. Each hans wegner wishbone table for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, oak and hardwood. There are many kinds of the hans wegner wishbone table you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. A hans wegner wishbone table is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in mid-century modern and Scandinavian Modern styles are sought with frequency. A well-made hans wegner wishbone table has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Hans J. Wegner, Carl Hansen & Søn and Johannes Hansen are consistently popular.

The average selling price for a hans wegner wishbone table at 1stDibs is $11,498, while they’re typically $950 on the low end and $48,092 for the highest priced.

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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