Watercolours by Hans J. Wegner - Anne Blond - Bog

Hans Wegner's iconic furniture is rediscovered through his tactile and alluring watercolours. The Danish furniture designer Hans J. Wegner (1914-2007) is known and loved around the world for his sophisticated chairs - but few people are familiar with his masterly watercolours. Throughout his career, his workshop drawings were often finished as watercolours. On the one hand, his artisanal background linked him to tradition, while on the other hand his artistic temperament sought new and boundary-breaking paths in the search for the perfect chair. This books shows his watercolors in thematic chapters and delves into the artistic dimension of selected chairs by one of the 20th and the delicate structure of the textile. to a wide range of furniture designs, the century's greatest furniture designers.