Scandinavian Seating

摘要

It is not a stretch to say that Hans Wegner joined the words "Danish" and "modern" as efficiently as he combined pieces of wood to make elegant chairs.rnWegner, who was 92 when he died Jan. 26, was the last of a generation of innovators such as Finn Juhl, Arne Jacobsen, and Poul Kjaerholm, who rose to international prominence in the 1950s on the strength of an alternative modern aesthetic. Theirs was steeped in Scandinavian reverence for craft.