Contemporary chair pp505

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Great luxury sometimes comes in small packages. This is one of Wegner’s smallest chairs, but it is an amazing work of art. Designed in 1952 the Cow Horn Chair is the immediate follow up on the breakthrough of Wegner’s career, pp501/pp503 Round Chair. The continuity in shape and philosophy is obvious but designed for a different purpose, Wegner created a smaller chair that would easily fit underneath the table thus making it more suitable for the dining set. The pp505 Cow Horn Chair is a compact chair developed by Wegner along the theme of the Round Chair. The armrest consists of only two pieces of solid wood each carved from shelter trees of around 200 years old. The right and left armrests are always cut in line of one another and paired to match. The right and left armrests are joined in the centre of the back where the wood is thickest, facing end-grain to end-grain. Gluing surfaces together along the end-grain of wood is technically very difficult making for a weak joint that moves over time. Wegner resolved this problem on the Cow Horn Chair by using contrasting wood tenons that makes the necessary constructional detail both strong and beautiful. The tenons serve to centre the design of the chair giving visual harmony when cow horns are grouped together.