Hans Wegner’s Circle Chair pp130 by PP MØBLER

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Hans Wegner’s Circle Chair pp130 by PP MØBLER

For me PP MØBLER has a website as it should be. Easy navigation and easy access to press material. Very nice photo work.

The story of PP Møbler starts in 1953. Two brothers, Ejnar and Lars Peder Pedersen, only recently graduated as carpenters, wish to set up a workshop of their own. They buy a small plot of land in Allerød and quickly gather eight young and talented cabinet makers.

The rest is history. Today, PP Møbler is one of the few remaining cabinet making workshops in Denmark. With a production covering the Japanese and the American market with furniture from Hans J. Wegner among others, the workshop is now an internationally recognised company with a strong tradition for crafting design furniture of high quality. Motivation has always been the love of wood and a stubborn belief that technique, ingenuity and craftsmanship can be combined in the strive for quality.

The craftsmen at PP Møbler are innovative and thorough working, encouraged to explore and develop skills in the constant search for a better way, a more precise way, of refining the production process, never compromising respect for the material.

The vast majority of PP Møbler’s wood supply comes from the beautiful sustainable forests of Denmark and Germany. The joy of working with wood as an organic whole makes environmental considerations a natural part of PP Møblers work ethics.

The sole purpose of PP Møbler is to create beautiful and functional furniture that can withstand daily use for generations.

Master of Craftsmen
Søren Holst Pedersen

PP has had a long working relationship with Hans Wegner. Frequently he let them develop prototypes and preproduction models of chairs he designed. Originally Hans Wegner wanted the Circle Chair be made in steel. It was PP Møbler who convinced him to do it in wood. They even constructed a special machine to create the exacting round form.

In the Circle Chair Video Hans Wegner inspects the creation of a circle chair himself.

Hinges for a Hans Wegner Valet Chair – Anybody?

Hans Wegner Valet Chair Hinges

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Received an e-mail from a Chair Blog fan:

Your blog is wonderful.
Thank you for doing such a thorough job and for sharing your information and observations with the rest of us.

I too am a chair fan and I have an original vintage Hans Wegner Valet chair that is unusable because the hinges were not on it when I purchased it. I wonder if in your journeys across the web you may have found a source for rare chair parts or another Hans Wegner collector that has valet chair hinges. From one chair lover to another I greatly appreciate any input you may be able to offer.

It would be great to actually be able to sit on this special piece.

As the hinges photo shows they are really special. Decided to post the question here to help our fan. Glad to oblige. Anybody an idea?

Found the Valet Chair photo in an excellent post about Hans Wegner furniture at the Chinese language blog I Design and the hinge photo at Live Auctioneers

CH52 Chair by Hans Wegner

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I’m a big fan of Hans Wegner, because he designed chairs you actually can sit comfortably on.

However, that’s not the reason I post this photo here.

I came across Suite New York, apparently a chair distributor. My next post will make clear why I want to post about them.

Again theirs is a site built with flash photos. No way of pinching a photo … even not with Webkut of Toki Woki and also not wit Clipmarks (which dissappeared since posting this item), but I succeeded with Fireshot Pro, a nifty Firefox plugin, also available for IE. I hate the hassle having to do screen dumps in one way or another….

LA Modern Auction Wegner Papa Chair

Lot 2
Hans J. Wegner
Papa chair
A.P. Stolen
designed 1951

38.75h x 31w x 39d

Estimate: $6000-8000

Via LAMA

Wright – Hans Wegner Valet Chair

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Hans Wegner Valet Chair

Modern Design
04 June 2000 12:00pm
Johannes Hansen
Denmark, c. 1953
teak, leather and brass
20 w x 18 d x 37 h inches

An elegant solution to the age-old tendency to use a chair as a cloth rack; the valet chair’s seat lifts to form a pant hanger and there is a small storage space under the seat for pocket contents. This example is in excellent condition and signed with a branded mark.

Estimate: $3,500 – $4,500
Result: $7,475

Via Wright Auctions