Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though he started his career as a cabinet maker, Danish design icon Hans Wegner made a name for himself with his aptitude for a ...

At the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers’ Guild exhibition in 1947, Holger Hansen, son of cabinetmaker Carl Hansen, met Hans Wegner, a young designer making radical new furnishings: sleek forms inspired by the ...

If Hans Wegner, the famous Danish furniture designer, were still alive today, he would turn 105 years old on April 2. Sadly, Wegner is no longer with us, but furniture manufacturer Carl Hansen & Søn ...