PP Møbler

Why it is renowned

PP Møbler makes much of Hans J. Wegner's furniture, among it the Round Chair; as his other makers closed, Wegner moved many of his designs to its workshop.¹² In 1969 he urged it to sell under its own name, and he designed its logo and, for twenty years, its marketing material.¹ Wallpaper* in London counts it among the most respected makers tied to Danish modernism and one of the few workshops still making everything on site, on the plot in Allerød where it opened in 1953.³

Recognition

• Wallpaper*, London³2014one of the most respected makers tied to Danish modernism

The story

The brothers Ejnar and Lars Peder Pedersen founded the workshop; in 1954 it had ten craftsmen.⁴ Through the 1950s and 1960s it worked as a subcontractor, making the frame of Wegner's Papa Bear Chair for A.P. Stolen, and Wegner used it for prototypes.¹ In 1969 he designed the PP201 and PP203 for it alone, and in 1990 the company took over the Wegner collection first made by Johannes Hansen.¹ It supplied Wegner's pp208 chairs for the restaurants on DSB's railway ferries.⁵ Ejnar Pedersen began handing the workshop to the next generation in 1998.⁴

What to know it by

• Round Chair²1949Hans J. WegnerFirst made by Johannes Hansen
• PP201¹1969Hans J. WegnerWegner's first chair made for PP alone
• Peacock Chair²1947Hans J. WegnerFirst made by Johannes Hansen
• PP52/PP62⁶1975Hans J. WegnerThe Captain's Chair