Pink Wishbone Project's Hans Wegner Chairs to Benefit Breast Cancer Research Foundation

by Elka Karl 0

This month, Suite New York launches its Pink Wishbone Project to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Twenty of the world’s leading women interior designers, including Sheila Bridges and Kelly Wearstler (whose gold safety pin-studded chair is shown here), among others, have each created one-of-a-kind cushions for the chair. The chairs themselves are being auctioned off, starting today, on CharityBuzz, with 100 percent of sales benefiting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Barneys New York is currently exhibiting the 20 customized chairs, so be sure to take a peek next time you're there shopping.


If you're not lucky enough to score one of the customized-cushion chairs, you can buy the pink-hued Wegner chair through Suite New York, which will exclusively sell the pink Wishbone Chair with 20 percent of the entire sale benefiting BCRF for one year after the event.

While a couple of the chairs have me muttering "WWHWD?" (What would Hans Wegner do?), I'm overall thrilled by the creativity of the designers behind this project. Let's take a look!

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