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In 2007, the great furniture (möbler) designer Hans J Wegner passed away. He entered this world in Tonger, Denmark, 93 years ago and over time became the most successful and noticed individual at the Danish Modern school of design. His beautiful and unobtrusive style is composed of clean and simple lines.

Hans J Wegner started out in carpentry, but that was interrupted by service in the military. Following this he trained in a technical school, later enrolling at Copenhagen Architectural Academy, as well as the School of Arts and Crafts for his professional training. Later on he worked under Erik Moller and Arne Jacobsen, both masters in the field.

The thing he was most proficient at was building chairs. He viewed these items not only in terms of their functionality, but as sculpture. This philosophy extended to design, such that there should be no "back" to the structure. No matter which way one gazed at the chair, it would be engaging to look at. Not only should the finished product be fluid, it should never be boring. The construction would involve a variety of shapes and parts.

He did not stop at basic chairs, though, going in to more complex designs like the 'peacock' style for competitions as well as some designs for tables, beds, and cabinets. He also created a valet chair, he used himself to design the chair to make certain that it both looked good and did the job it was intended for. He is also considered, along with his daughter, to be the inventor of the pole light, which came around in the 1970's.

Hans J Wegner is best known for his chair designs and he made four chairs with woven style seats for Carl Hansen and Son. But the chair 25, also known as ch25 is one of his better designs which has rope weaving both in the seat and the back. The front legs carry most of the load and are very straight and the back legs are angled. This lounge chair is more stable than most other chairs of that type and is a very unique piece of furniture (wegner möbler).

Chair 25 was designed with the use of several different woods, and had a paper rope for the seat and the back of the chair. Also interesting about the design is the side of the seat, which is made from one piece that curves and becomes the back legs. Often Chair 25 is grouped with wicker furniture , as some consider it to look wicker in style, but Wegner's design is in a league apart from flimsy wicker furnishings.

Hans J Wegner did not give his designs names, only catalogue numbers. One of his models, the PP203, was seen by millions when a dozen of them were purchased by the television networks and used in the famous Kennedy-Nixon election debates in 1960. They were chosen for their simple, clean lines, but all of them are also comfortable.

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Chairs are what Hans Wegner is best known for rather than the other home furnishings (hem mobler) he had designed, especially ch25 (or Chair 25) which was created in 1950. He designed four chairs with woven style seats for Carl Hansen and Son; however this was the only one with rope weaving in the seat and the back. It is also uniquely engineered with the back legs angled and the load bearing front legs being straight. This lounge chair is much more stable than other chairs of that type that have been constructed.