Danish postmodern

A furniture style that helped define the 1960s still rules for some devoted homeowners

Laura Thomas, Assistant Home & Garden Editor

Architect Rodney Friedman and his wife, Shirley, sit at their dining room table on "wishbone" chairs by Danish designer Hans Wegner they purchased 45 years ago while stationed with the Air Force in Germany.

Those chairs cost them about $14 apiece, which was still a chunk "when your salary was $200 a month," Friedman said. It matters little to them that those chairs now cost $600 to $700 each or that their other famous Wegner chair, the Model 19 or Papa Bear chair, goes up for bid on eBay at $2,000 to $3,000.

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