Hans Wegner’s FH4103 tripod chair is a light wooden chair with a curved backrest and three legs, featuring a minimalist mid-century design on a smooth white floor against a plain light gray background.

A Danish wooden chair with three legs, a curved backrest, and a smooth natural finish, set against a light gray background, model 4103 by Fritz Hansen

A wooden chair with a rounded, curved backrest, no armrests, clean lines, and a minimalist design, set against a plain light gray background.

Minimalist wooden chair with angled legs, a curved seat, and a distinctive slightly curved backrest, against a plain light background.

Danish tripod chair seen from the back, Fritz Hansen edition

Danish tripod chair, close-up of the backrest.

Danish design-inspired wooden chair with a backrest and curved light-wood legs, and a dark-wood heart-shaped seat, photographed from above against a plain white background.

Detail of the wood grain of the Danish seat.

Rear view of the light-wood Scandinavian chair.

The chair turned over on the floor, showing the joinery details

Hans Wegner: tripod chair “Heart

Hans J. Wegner (1914-2007) for Fritz Hansen editor, tripod chair FH 4103 called “Heart”, Denmark around 1953.

Original edition in teak and beech wood stamped “FH” under the seat.
H 72.5 CM X D 41.5 CM X W 52 CM.
H sitting 43 CM.

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Heart Chair FH 4103 – Hans Wegner, 1950s Danish design

Designed in the early 1950s by Hans J. Wegner for the publisher Fritz Hansen, the so-called “Heart” chair, model FH 4103, is part of a search for furniture that is rational, functional, and formally accomplished. The Danish designer, who created more than 500 chair models over his career, develops here a particularly rigorous approach, where every element contributes to an overall balance.

Its name comes from the distinctive shape of its seat, triangular and softened, evoking a heart. This geometry directly determines the chair’s tripod structure, resting on three legs, in a logic of coherence between form and function. The whole thus presents a stable, light silhouette that is immediately recognizable.

Designed to be stackable, the FH 4103 chair meets the practical constraints of post-war Danish design while retaining great formal simplicity. Less widely distributed than some of Wegner’s iconic models, such as the Round Chair JH501, it stands out for its more experimental character and its particularly masterful construction.