Airline Chair By Hans J. Wegner
Through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the Airline Chair buy Hans J. Wegner has been part of airports, public offices, hotels and private homes. It’s a furniture design masterpiece.
Hans J. Wegner was a skilled designer in all facets and learned a lot through his early years as a carpenter, as he learned about the free use and movement of wood, which can be combined with many other types of materials to create something unique. He made many chairs and was part of many projects over his career-span, and he became noted for his particular technique of meshing stainless steel with wood and upholstery, which gave the many chairs he created a very modernistic look. He first designed the Airline Chair, otherwise known as the “ch401 Airline Chair” or “The Kastrup Chair” around 1958, and was aimed at becoming part of an ongoing design project.
Hans Wegner had been designing for a vast number of public places from the beginning of the 1960s all the way up to the 80s, such as public offices, international airports, hotels, but he still had a lot of private homes as well. He incorporated the Airline chair into part of the d
