Hans J. Wegner’s Wishbone Chair CH24 (1950)

Inspired by Chinese bamboo furniture design of the eighteenth century as well as Michael Thonet’s Café Chair No. 14 from the mid nineteenth century, Danish designer Hans J. Wegner produced a total of five different Chinese chairs during the 1940s. The Wishbone Chair CH24 (1950), also known as the Y Chair, would become the most famous chair of this series and today is recognized the world over.