Mid-century furniture by Borge Mogensen (Denmark)

Børge Mogensen was a renowned Danish furniture designer, born in 1914 in Aalborg, Denmark. He became a cabinetmaker in 1934 and later studied furniture design at the Danish School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen. He also trained as an architect at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture, graduating in 1942. Mogensen worked at various design studios in Copenhagen before founding his own furniture design studio in 1959.

Along with other designers such as Arne Jacobsen and Hans Wegner, Mogensen played a significant role in making Danish Modern furniture known globally. His designs were simple, functional, and highly sought after for over 50 years. His work has been featured in one-man exhibitions in several cities, including London, New York City, Paris, and Copenhagen, and he received numerous awards for design, including the Eckersberg Medaillen in 1950 and the C.F. Hansen medal in 1972.

One more... of Mogensen's notable projects was the Boligens Byggeskabe, which he created with Grethe Meyer in 1954. It introduced the concept of incorporating shelving and storage units as part of a room's design. Between 1955 and 1967, he designed the "Øresund" shelving series, which aimed to solve every storage need that could arise in modern homes.

Mogensen designed furniture for various settings, including a seaside cottage, a husband's study, and a traditional oak table and chair set. He also collaborated with weaver Lis Ahlmann on textile designs and succeeded Kaare Klint as the designer to the Danish Museum of Decorative Art.

Mogensen's furniture designs were greatly appreciated by the public and highly representative of his training as a traditional craftsman. Critics lauded his 1949 chair, which used a curved, slightly sloping backrest in an organic dewdrop shape, as a model for future chairs. His 1951 interior for the Cabinetmaker's show combined Danish oak with leather upholstery and slate tiling in a way that created a new grouping of materials.

He died in 1972. less...