Hans Wegner quotes

Hans Wegner quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.”
-- Hans Wegner

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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.”
-- Hans Wegner

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“The good chair is a task one is never completely done with”
-- Hans Wegner

Source : Hans J. Wegner, Jens Bernsen (1994). “Hans J. Wegner”

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“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.”
“Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?”
“The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.”
“Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana," he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands”
“If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.”
“Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!”
“The boring side of business is what makes it work.”
“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.
“I wanted to clear up the slum of legsâ€¦ 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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