Description
The Chinese chair is one of Wegner’s earliest designs in production yet it is produced using the most modern bending technique. A single piece of steamed wood is compressed along its length using an advanced technical process and is immediately rounded before it is bent in three dimensions. Wegner presented his first version of the Chinese Chair at the cabinet makers guild’s Autumn Exhibition in 1943. He had been inspired by an old Chinese chair that he carefully studied in the Danish Museum of Industrial Arts. The Chinese Chair became a cornerstone for Wegner in his early line of designs inspired by foreign cultures. Completing at least seven prototypes of the Chinese inspired chairs, Wegner worked intensely on modernising the traditional concept, eventually the Chinese Chair evolved into the Round Chair.
