Literature: Jens Bernsen: “Hans J. Wegner”, ill. p. 59.

When Wegner presents this model in 1970, as part of his new range of high-end executive furniture, it fits right in with a taste for minimalistic Modernist steel furniture in those years. No one suspects that this chair is indeed an idea that Wegner has been sitting on since circa 1940. The idea of creating a chair by bending two pieces and with just two bars for lateral support. The chair, so elegant and timeless, would re-appear in a bent wooden version in 1979. The wooden version is no succes. Found to be clumsy, it is such a symbol of that specific era.