![]() ![]() When he died in 1943 his sons John and Ferenc carried on the family business until the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution forced them and their families to emigrate to the United States. John’s great-grandfather Ferenc Wohner was a prosperous Hungarian furniture factory owner whose products were sold all over Europe. Wohner’s, as John Wohner puts it, is “very 18th-century, very classical”-very Old Europe. To spend time at viewing screenful after screenful of mantels, doors, mirrors, mouldings, shelves, and tables, not to mention corbels, capitals, figures, rosettes, drops, swags, corners, brackets, and finials, every one of them exquisitely carved from maple, oak, cherry, linden, or “other species available on special order,” is enough to make you sit in your chair a little straighter and apply a bit more powder to your wig. In front of one of John's intricate mantels Photos courtesy of WohnersĪnd venerable. At last he replies, simply: “We deal with anything in wood that’s carved and that’s technically difficult and artistic.” Yet John Wohner ’91 is stumped when asked what exactly his business does. This should be an easy question to answer-after all, he’s been sweeping the floor of the family business since he was five years old, can perform any job within it, and is the fourth generation to run it.
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