Borge Mogensen

Børge Mogensen (1914-1972) was one of the figures who most contributed to defining the style of traditional Danish design that is still so loved and appreciated today. Mogensen, in particular, plays a key role in leading Danish design from a pioneering phase still strongly linked to the handcrafted creation of high-quality, high-cost products to a more democratic development, aimed at the masses and young people thanks to lower prices but without lose in quality. He does this through great attention to the production and standardization aspects, developing, bringing and calibrating on large numbers the analytical and rational design method taught to him by his great master Kaare Klint, under whom he stuidies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and for the which he works for several years. He is able to implement this method above all thanks to his role as design director for Fællesforening for Danmarks Brugsforeninger (Confederation of Danish Design Cooperatives, still active today with the FDB Møbler brand), established in 1942 with the aim of producing low-cost for the widest possible audience. Starting in 1950, Mogensen leaves the FDB and founds his own design studio which also gives life to more valuable and refined products, realized, in particular, thanks to the partnership with the Fredericia brand. As taught to him by Klint, Mogensen loves to reinterpret classic English Windosre Chir furniture types or Shaker-style furnishings, reinterpreted with natural materials and functional but elegant shapes. In addition to Fredericia and FDB Møbler, today his furnishings are also produced by brands such as Carl Hansen & Søn, Hay and Mater.