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WITH ITS…

huge bow-shaped again, easy rounded curves and stylish oak frame, Hans J. Wegner’s CH78 ‘Mama Bear’ Chair was launched in 1954. The chair turned an fast emblem of a ‘less is more’ methodology in Scandinavian home furnishings structure, mentioned for its clean up, smart and smooth aesthetic. Carefully reclined and quietly soulful, the Mama Bear armchair is knowledgeable by human anatomy alone as expressed by way of the tender dips and bends of its sinuous silhouette. Certainly, the CH78 stood out from the bulkier armchairs of its era thanks to Hans J. Wegner’s visionary touch, educated by his seemingly magical capacity to see beyond his time and conceive sleek chairs that would nonetheless have a commanding existence in a home. Affectionately regarded inside the design and style globe as the “Master of the Chair”, J. Wegner (1914-2007) designed a lot more than 500 chairs all over his profession and was particularly prolific for the duration of the 1950s and ‘60s.

 

 

THE MAMA BEAR…

chair became an icon of pared-back Danish style and portion of a wider information about how class of sort and sculptural integrity could be fused with utility and convenience to generate an enduring department of classicism suited to speedy-paced modernity – a inventive tactic that resonates with a world wide viewers to this working day.

 

 

AT THE…

heart of Hans J. Wegner’s design and style philosophy is an intuitive type of reductive thought, a person he stated as, “a constant method of purification and of simplification – to lower down to the most basic possible layout of four legs, a seat, and a blended back – and armrest.” In addition to these visual cues, there’s an ineffable language at get the job done in this article that harnesses a feeling of psychological harmony, inducing a sensation of reassurance and homeyness, consequently the ‘Mama Bear‘ title. In fact, playfulness – or the motivation for escapism – is also whispered in this design given that this is a chair that you want to sink into.

 

 

THE MAMA BEAR…

chair was re-launched in 2020 by loved ones-owned Danish home furniture business Carl Hansen & Søn, a maker set up in 1908 centered on the island of Funen, renowned for its holistic and natural and organic tactic to preserving Danish design classics.

 

 

IN CELEBRATION…

of Spring 2022, the timeless splendor of the CH78 Chair’s body has been even more heightened with a luxuriant wool-blend butter product upholstery, that boosts the swish condition and heat of Wegner’s legendary ‘Mama Bear’ Chair. We invite you to find this confined time promotion applied to the iconic CH78 Lounge Chair and its complimentary CH53 Footstool these days at DSHOP.