The year 2007 marked the passing of a great furniture designer, Hans J Wegner. He was born in Tonger, Denmark in 1914 and became recognized as the most successful and prominent figure in the Danish Modern School of Design. His style is based on clean and simple lines that work together to be beautiful and unobtrusive.

Hans J Wegner began his career choice as a carpenter only to have it interrupted to serve in the military. Wegner was enrolled in Copenhagen Architectural Academy as well as the School of Arts and Crafts. He trained in a technical school for a time, and received professional training. Later he worked learning from the masters Erik Moller and Arne Jacobsen.

He was most talented at constructing chairs, which he considered as much a work of art, as a place to sit. One of his beliefs was that chairs should appear excellent from every perspective, but there should be no back to the chair, just a continuous flow around the chair. Although he used a variety of shapes and materials, he wanted simple refined designs.

An innovation from 1970 was the pole light he created with his daughter. When he was entering competitions he varied from his basic chair concept and added his peacock design to make a more elaborate patterned piece of furniture . Beds, cabinets and tables were also included and after thoroughly testing it's usefulness and appearance on himself, he also designed a valet chair.

Most of the furniture Hans J Wegner is best known for is in fact chairs. One of the better known designs was the wegner ch25 (or Chair 25) created in 1950. He designed four chairs with woven style seats for Carl Hansen and Son, but this is the only one with rope weaving in both the seat and in the back. It is also uniquely engineered with the front legs being very straight and carrying most of the load. The back legs are angled and this lounge chair is much more stable than most of that type.

Many types of wood were used in making Chair 25 which had its back and seat made of paper rope. The seat's side of chair 25 is a continuous curved piece that works as back legs. This chair is sometimes mistaken for wicker furniture , But the fact remains that Wegner's chair is totally different in its make from the conventional wicker furniture .

Hans J Wegner did not give his designs names, only catalogue numbers. One of his models, the PP203, was seen by millions when a dozen of them were purchased by the television networks and used in the famous Kennedy-Nixon election debates in 1960. They were chosen for their simple, clean lines, but all of them are also comfortable.

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Chairs are what Hans J Wegner is best known for rather than the other home furnishings (hem mobler) he had designed, especially ch25 (or Chair 25) which was created in 1950. He designed four chairs with woven style seats for Carl Hansen and Son; however this was the only one with rope weaving in the seat and the back. It is also uniquely engineered with the back legs angled and the load bearing front legs being straight. This lounge chair is much more stable than other chairs of that type that have been constructed.