PP66 Chinese Chair

Hans Wegner presented his first version of the Chinese Chair at the Cabinetmakers’ Guild’s Autumn Exhibition in 1943. He had been inspired by an old Chinese chair that he had carefully studied at the Danish Museum of Industrial Arts.
The Chinese Chair became a cornerstone for Wegner in his early line of designs inspired by foreign cultures. Completing at least seven individual prototypes of Chinese inspired chairs, Wegner worked intensely on modernising the traditional concept, and eventually the Chinese Chair evolved into the Round Chair, also simply called The Chair.
pp66 was designed in 1945 and became the quintessential modern outcome of Wegner’s studies of Chinese chairs. It has always been co-founder Ejnar Pedersen’s favourite chair, and in 1976 it became the first of the early Wegner chairs to be reissued at PP Møbler. The pp56 version with the upholstered seat for a softer sitting experience was added in 1989.