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Midcentury Modern Furniture Owes Its Popularity to the Welfare State | The New Republic

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Danish design was a product of postwar social democracy.

The first televised presidential debate, in 1960, began with both candidates sitting before approaching their respective podiums. Nixon was memorably not telegenic: sweaty and uncomfortable. On the chair next to him, Kennedy, with his legs crossed, appears relaxed, youthful, and handsome. In the intervening 60 years, we have come to think of JFK winning the debate by knowing how to play to the camera. But maybe the chairs also helped: They were Danish. In fact, they were Hans Wegner’s famed round chairs : the ultimate symbol of midcentury sophistication. The chair was spartan and simple—one bi

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