Hans Wegner (1914-2007, Denmark), AP-19 design "Papa Bear" tufted upholstered wingback chair and matching ottoman footstool, featuring wooden accents

39"h x 35"w x 32"d/ chair

Provenance: Property from a prominent San Antonio, Texas estate

Condition: Missing two buttons

Danish designer Hans Wegner (1914-2007) designed the AP-19 chair, better known as the "Papa Bear" or "Teddy Bear" chair, for AP Stolen in 1951. Beginning in 1953, the Danish workshop PP Møbler, formed by brothers Ejnar and Lars Peder Pedersen in 1953, began manufacturing the beech wood frames for the chairs. In celebration of PP Møbler's 50th anniversary, the company reissued the "Papa Bear" chair and ottoman. The chair received its namesake after a critic commented that its armrests were like "great bear paws embracing you from behind."

Among Danish furniture designers, Hans J. Wegner (1914-2007) is considered one of the most creative, innovative and prolific. Often referred to as the master of the chair, Wegner created almost 500 in his lifetime many of them considered masterpieces. His iconic Wishbone Chair is probably the most well-known and has been in continuous production since 1950. Wegner was part of the spectacular generation that created what is today referred to as "the Golden Age" of modern Danish design. Many foreigners have asked me how we created the Danish style, Wegner once said. And I've answered that it was a continuous process of purification and of simplification €â€œ to cut down to the simplest possible design of four legs, a seat, and a combined back- and armrest. Almost all of the world's major design museums, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Design museum Danmark in Copenhagen to Die Neue Sammlung in Munich, exhibit his works.

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