Hans Wegner designed over 500 chairs in his lifetime. More than 100 went into mass production. One was called the most beautiful chair in the world and appeared in the first televised presidential debate. His Wishbone Chair has been in continuous production since 1950.

Yet Wegner himself said: « If only you could design just one good chair in your life… but you simply cannot. »

This is the story of a cobbler’s son from Tønder, Denmark, who became the most prolific chair designer of the twentieth century, from his apprenticeship at age 14, through the Ming dynasty inspiration that shaped his most famous works, to the Kennedy-Nixon debate that introduced his furniture to 70 million Americans.

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