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Borge Mogensen
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Borge Mogensen was born in Aalborg, Denmark. He statred as a cabinetmaker in 1934. and studied furniture design at the College of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen from 1936-38, and then at the Furniture School of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1938-41. Trained at the School of Arts and Crafts and at the Furniture School of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1936-42). Head of FDB’s furniture design studio 1942-50. Own design studio from 1950. One-man exhibitions in Zurich, London, New York, Stockholm, Paris and Copenhagen. Awarded e.g. the Eckersberg Medaillen (1950) and the C.F. Hansen medal (1972). Mogensen fostered a deep commitment to producing classical, simple and highly functional furniture. He also became interested in researching people and their trends in order to develop domestic objects that were customized to their specific use. |
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Borge Mogensen While his work was mostly conceived and built for broad production, it provides an attention to quality and detail that ultimately secures his place in design history. Minimalism and functionalism are combined with the natural beauty of wood and high quality craftsmanship. His real radicalism, if one can call it that, comes from his departure from the Danish middle class obsession with mahogany toward a freer, more open, use of the lighter woods of beech and oak. As with his counterparts, he also worked with teak and, somewhat more rarely, in rosewood. Retaining a sophisticated air, his designs easily speak to our modern day desire for a more simplistic, yet elegant lifestyle.
