One of Hans Wegner's 1960 designs has been re-born 50 years later. The "Oculus" CH468 Chair, re-released by Carl Hansen & Son is like the curvaceous counterpart to the CH445 Wing Chair of the same birth year.
While the Wing Chair has been in production for years, only two prototypes of the Oculus were ever manufactured until now. One of the chairs was lost and the other chair, of which Wegner's family had possession, was the only map remaining to re-creating this beauty. While Carl Hansen & Son admits to buying up auction pieces and cutting them in half to re-launch a product, they couldn't do this with the one and only survivor of this treasured design. What did they do instead? They had the chair scanned in 3-D so that they could see the inside, and all angles necessary to re-create the Oculus. Thank goodness for modern technology.
View the Oculus on Carl Hansen & Son's website,
here.
Want one for yourself? Contact us,
here
One of Hans Wegner's 1960 designs has been re-born 50 years later. The "Oculus" CH468 Chair, re-released by Carl Hansen & Son is like the curvaceous counterpart to the CH445 Wing Chair of the same birth year.
While the Wing Chair has been in production for years, only two prototypes of the Oculus were ever manufactured until now. One of the chairs was lost and the other chair, of which Wegner's family had possession, was the only map remaining to re-creating this beauty. While Carl Hansen & Son admits to buying up auction pieces and cutting them in half to re-launch a product, they couldn't do this with the one and only survivor of this treasured design. What did they do instead? They had the chair scanned in 3-D so that they could see the inside, and all angles necessary to re-create the Oculus. Thank goodness for modern technology.
View the Oculus on Carl Hansen & Son's website, here.
Want one for yourself? Contact us, here