Teak Chest of Drawers by Børge Mogensen for Søborg Møbelfabrik

The Danish furniture designer Børge Mogensen (1914-1972) completed a cabinetmaking apprenticeship and then studied at the Kunsthåndværkerskolen and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen under Kaare Klint, whose teaching assistant he later became. From 1942 to 1950 he headed the furniture design studio of the FDB cooperative, for which he designed the J39 people's chair (1947). With his own studio from 1950, he created for Fredericia Furniture, among other things, the Spanish Chair (1958), a wide leather armchair with saddle straps. Mogensen preferred robust natural materials such as oak, pine and vegetable-tanned leather and consistently rejected decorative elements.