Danish design promoted a sincere interest in the interaction between users and their tools and a more organic understanding of form. Design should appeal to all senses not just visible. The first decades after World War II were the most fruitful period ever for Danish Design. Many Danish designers achieved world fame along with Hans J. Wegner including Finn Juhl, Arne Jacobsen, Borge Mogensen, and later Poul Kjaerholm and Verner Panton.

Hans J. Wegner was the carpenter who conceived of the design on the basis of how a creative craftsman with good practical sense would go about the task. Wegner himself described it in an interview with Henrik Sten Møller as “a competition, so much to do, quality to live up to, and personal competition between, among others, Borge Mogensen, Finn Juhl, and me.” But as Henrik Sten Møller wrote many years later, “I would venture to say that Hans J. Wegner is the most gifted cabinetmaker the world has ever known.”

Though pleasing to the eye, form still follows function with the Wegner Valet Chair. The chair's back accomidates shirts and jackets, and the seat flips up fro trousers. The design remains faithful to the original, but the materials have been updated in response to environmental concerns. Maple and lacquered cherry have replaced midcentury modern's ubiquitous, though increasingly rare, mahogany and teak.

Item		Description		Highbrow price
PP-250		wegner valet chair		$6350