Hans Wegner Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.”
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“Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest.”
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“The good chair is a task one is never completely done with”
-- Hans WegnerSource : Hans J. Wegner, Jens Bernsen (1994). “Hans J. Wegner”
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“Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana," he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands”
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“Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.”
Source : "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.
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“I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.”
Source : Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press
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