Image source: Fredericia — Wegner J16 Rocking Chair
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Wegner J16 Rocking Chair
Hans J. Wegner's J16 Rocking Chair, first designed in 1944: solid wood, woven paper cord seat
620 × 1070 × 850 mm
1944
Official product information
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Description
Overview
The Wegner J16 Rocking Chair (Model 16000) is a rocking chair made of solid wood, seated in woven paper cord. Fredericia says Hans J. Wegner showed an early interest in the rocking chair as a design object and that the very first version dates from 1944. Its data gives 62 cm width, 85 cm depth, 107 cm height, a seat height of 42 cm and a weight of 11 kg.
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Construction
The sheet gives two lines: a rocking chair in solid wood and a woven seat of paper cord. The paper cord comes in natural or black, and the wood as oiled walnut or as oak soaped, oiled or lacquered black.
Specifications
- Seat: natural or black paper cord
- Wood: walnut oiled, oak soap, oak oil, oak black lacquer (oak FSC Mix 70%)
- Weight: 11 kg
Story
One of his first chairs in production
The page describes the J16 as one of Wegner's first chairs ever put into production. After a process to make the chair easier to manufacture, production could start, and Fredericia writes that the chair has been in demand ever since it first came on the market.
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In use
The page's See in use section points to two homes where the rocking chair was chosen for the interior: that of the architectural curator and lecturer Corinna Dean, and the North London home of Irenie Cossey.
More by Hans J. Wegner
CH011 Coffee Table
Wegner's 1954 rectangular coffee table in solid oak on four tapered, detachable legs
CH825 Credenza
Wegner's 1959 CH825 credenza: roller shutter doors, adjustable shelves and four pull-out trays
CH24 Soft (Hans J. Wegner & Ilse Crawford)
Ilse Crawford's reinterpretation of Wegner's Wishbone Chair in nine soft paint colours
CH417 Tray Table
Hans J. Wegner's CH417 tray table: a reversible round tray on a collapsible stainless steel base
Collection
J16 Rocking Chair & Stool
Fredericia's J16 Rocking Chair & Stool collection by Hans J. Wegner: the rocking chair first designed in 1944 and its companion stool, paper cord seats.
