Best known for his chairs and seating pieces — though a master of many furniture types like sofas and tables — Hans Wegner was a prolific designer whose elegant, often ebullient, forms and devotion to the finest methods in joinery made "Danish Modern" a popular byword for stylish, well-made furniture in the mid-20th century. Wegner considered himself a carpenter first and a furniture designer second. Like his peers Arne Jacobsen and Finn Juhl, Wegner believed that striking aesthetics in furniture were based on a foundation of practicality: a chair must be comfortable and sturdy before it is chic. In keeping with that tenet, several of Wegner’s best chair designs, seen in dealer listings below, have their roots in traditional seating forms. The “Peacock chair” (designed 1947) is a throne-like adaptation of the Windsor chair; pieces from the “China chair” series (begun in 1944) as well as the 1949 “Wishbone chair,” with its distinctive Y-shaped back splat, are derived from 17th-century Ming seating pieces, as is the upholstered “Ox chair” (1960).

Wegner’s comfy “Papa Bear chair” (1951) is an almost surreally re-scaled English wingback chair. Wegner’s most representative piece, the “Round chair” (1949), gained a footnote in political history when it was used on the TV stage of the first Kennedy-Nixon debate of 1960. That chair, along with Wegner’s more bravura designs, for example the 1963 “Shell chair,” with its curved surfboard-shaped seat, bring a quietly sculptural presence to a room. Wegner was a designer who revered his primary material — wood — and it shows. His wood gathers patina and character with age; every Hans Wegner piece testifies to the life it has led.We're sorry for the inconvenience, but we currently don’t deliver/ship to your area. Shipping to an address in Canada? Explore our MyDirect program. 12 months no payments.   Let's stay connected to your life and style. Be the first to know about Dufresne special offers, new product launches, the latest trends and exclusive offers.

Please enter a valid email address. You can unsubscribe anytime. Abandoned train engine listed on Kijiji for $25,000 Remnant of Tembec pulp and paper mill being sold off in Pine Fallswhere to buy ekornes chairs By Robin Summerfield, CBC Newsplastic chairs and tables for sale in pretoria Posted: Aug 30, 2016 7:35 AM CTchair caning supplies maine Last Updated: Aug 30, 2016 7:35 AM CTfarmhouse chairs for sale in kent NRI Global, an asset management company in North America, is trying to sell an idle train engine in Pine Falls for $25,000. table and chair rental flint mi

For sale: Train engine; A long dormant yet fully functional train engine can be yours for $25,000, plus the cost of shipping. The engine sits on about 15 metres of track on the site of the shuttered Tembec paper mill in Pine Falls.leather dining chairs gauteng It's an unusual item among the many ads for furniture, cars and garage sales on buy-and-sell website Kijiji.stokke high chair for sale Noel Chartier was hired on contract by the train's owners, NRI Global Inc., to sell it.stokke high chair gray The train engine is one of the less common items for sale on the buy-and-sell website Kijiji. plastic patio chairs sears

"The challenge is, with the tracks being gone, it's landlocked. Makes it a little harder to sell, a little more expensive to move," Chartier told Up to Speed host Ismaila Alfa on Monday. Chartier has fielded about five "serious" calls in response to the ad, including one from a business owner who wants to use the engine as an advertisement in front of his business. Another caller wants to put the engine to work, Chartier said. A B.C.-based museum also started a Go Fund Me campaign to buy the engine but that "didn't pan out," he said. The price has already dropped $5,000, according to the online ad. The buyer would have to move the approximately 90- to 110-tonne train off the property. That would entail hiring a crane, removing the train wheels and hoisting the engine onto a special low-bed trailer, Chartier said. From there, the owner could move it to the closest set of tracks and drive it, or haul it via highways to its final destination, he said.

Tembec closed the mill in 2010 and later put it up for sale. The railway ties and tracks, except the 15-metre section the engine sits on, were broken down and sold for recycling. Ailing town desperate for aid Pine Falls mill sale dead The engine should still run but over the years, thieves have targeted the train. "It was running when it was parked. We've had a little bit of a problem with vandalism," Chartier said. "I guess there's value in copper wiring and somebody did a fair amount of damage to it just cutting the wires, but apparently it's still runable." The engine is worth about $25,000 in scrap metal, Chartier said. If it doesn't sell, it will likely be broken down into pieces for recycling, except for the engine and generator, he said. "A couple of guys [blow]torching, it won't take long to put that into small pieces, and it will be a piece of history that's going to be maybe turned into train tracks." Stay Connected with CBC News

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