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A historic Danish design company, over the course of its 140 years, thanks to collaboration with far-sighted designers and architects such as Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, Hans J. Wegner and Poul Kjærholm, Fritz Hansen has produced a rich portfolio of furnishings such as tables, chairs and armchairs, now considered design “classics” and identified as true timeless icons such as the Egg and Swan armchairs.

Hans J. Wegner, born in 1914 in Tønder, is considered one of the greatest representatives of modern Danish design. At just 14 years old he began working as an apprentice to a Danish cabinetmaker and subsequently moved to Copenhagen, where he attended the School of Arts and Crafts. In 1938 Wegner, after being contacted by Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller, designed furniture for the new town hall in Aarhus. After further collaborations with Jacobsen, Wegner struck out on his own, often working together with Børge Mogensen. Its commercial success, however, was due to the collaboration with the Carl Hansen & Søn, for whom he designed various pieces of furniture, such as the very famous Wishbone Chair, still in production today, which continued almost until the designer's death in Copenhagen in 2007. Many design museums around the world still exhibit his works, such as the MoMa in New York and the Designmuseum Denmark in Copenhagen.