I love being in my shop and building things. My architect daughter and son-in law got me back into woodworking a number of years ago after a hiatus due to my career.
Started back building some chairs of my own design and eventually some Maloof inspired rockers and dining chairs, then a butterfly table. Then Hans Wegner's "The Chair" was brought to my attention and requested I build 6 of them for my daughter's new architecture office. I was hooked. But the more closely I researched, the more complicated and tangled the construction seemed. So I decided to try and build a prototype using hard Maple cutoffs and scrap from Maloof chair and dining room table cut-offs. I powered through it and came up with this Wegner inspired chair - photos attached.
I'll post more on the construction process and finished piece if anyone is interested.
I took a lot of inspiration and measurements from Derek Cohen's posts on this topic. He constructed a beautiful copy a few years ago. The only other hand built Wegner chair I could find mention/information on was Jeremy Broun's piece. In general these chairs are manufactured by CNC machinery in Denmark, where they originated in 1949 designed by Hans Wegner, built from "Navy" Oak trees planted there centuries ago. Alsop famous for the photos of the first USA televised presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy!
Now starting a run of 6 chairs in White Oak. My copy is constructed quite different than Derek Cohen's and Jeremy Broun's.
Regards,
Scott Oxenhandler
Hollywood, Florida