I found these pics in the Bruun-Rasmussen auctions "Wegner 100 years" catalog.The first picture is of the dolphin-chair. His most beautiful design in my opinion. It's a rare chair, but alot of you might have seen it before. However, the furniture on the last five pictures, I for one, have never seen anywhere else than in this catalog. I would attach more pictures if I could, but six is the limit.Just thought I'd share.P.S.If any of these designs are commonly known in other parts of the world than Denmark, please let me know. Wegner might have designed some of them, only with export in mind.EDITForgot descriptions.pic 1 Dolphin chair, JH 510, Johannes Hansenpic 2 Work table, JH 584, Johannes Hansenpic 3 Windsor chairs, Designed 1949, Fritz Hansenpic 4 Paper basket, B 51, PlanmøbelPic 5 Swivel chair, B 621, Planmøbelpic 6 Mahogany chairs, Designed 1942, no modelno., Johannes Hansen
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If you liked the pictures, you're really gonna love this.
I've found a link to the entire catalog. (I originally got the file attached to an email.)
Please note before you click on anything.This file is not accesible through Bruun-Rasmussens main page.However, 1) the link is directly related to the proprietor (Bruun-Rasmussen), thus it's not a 3rd party hack. 2) the link is accesible for everyone who does a little google digging. 3) If they didn't want people to download it, they shouldn't put it on the internet.Thus I consider the download completely within the boundries of the law (the danish anyway:))
If the above haven't discouraged you, here's 241 pages, most in english, with Wegners furniture design, his less known lamp designs, valuations, anecdotes, and old pictures (ex. Wegner with Charles Eames)
Enjoy
http://www.bruun-rasmussen.dk/vfs/catalogues/853/853_wegner.pdf
Thanks again!
I keep wondering why the Wishbone chair (Y chair) is not in the auction. I know it was Wegner's bestseller, so it isn't rare by that standard, but plenty of the designs in the catalog are not rare either. The wishbone is even referenced multiple times in the text. And a set of 8 or so first production, excellent condition wishbones would certainly be valuable enough to make it worth the page.
It almost seems like an intentional exclusion.
It very well could be a intentional exclusion.
Bruun-Rasmussen has always been a stiff-upperlip auctionhouse in Denmark. They might have thought that the wishbone chairs were to common for an exclusive auction. They do have wishbone chairs on their "normal" auctions though.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Denmark the wishbone chair outrank all of Wegners other designs, both when it comes to salesvolume and recognition. Nearly everyone in Denmark can recognize the wishbone chair as Wegners, even though they can't name a single other design by him. It's almost become a part of our culture.
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