Modern Black Ash Hans Wegner Kennedy Arm Chair

Modern Black Tomile Hans Wegner Kennedy Armchair 18Pounds

It has few hard edges and corners, has smooth and beautiful lines, exquisite details and elegant and simple shapes. The corners are generally processed into smooth curves, giving people a sense of closeness.

This is a high quality reproduction in the style of Wegner's original. Inspired by classical portraits of Danish merchants sitting in Ming chairs, Wegner created a series of chairs including the elbow, arm and wishbone chair series that helped establish Denmark as an international leader of modern design.

"The Round One", as Hans J. Wegner was used to call it, is probably Wegner's furniture the most famous in the world.

Less than a year after its creation, the American magazine Interiors devoted it a special issue, which marked the beginning of the international carrier of Hans Wegner. The latter, with his usual modesty, said: "This chair could have been created one hundred years ago – nothing new".

The PP503 chair, designed one year latter, differs from the PP501 by its upholstered seat. John Kennedy, who suffered back, adopted it for his televised debate with Nixon in 1960, contributing to the celebrity of the chair which was then renamed The Chair and joined permanently the White House.