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Description

Borge Mogensen Danish Sideboard Soborg Mobelfabrik circa 1950s excellent retro mid-century modern design by this leading important danish designer.
The Sideboard in teak With Sliding Doors And a white oak interior having pullout adjustable drawers to one side all the drawers Being Dove Tail Finger jointed the Other side of The sideboard Has shelves,the sideboard Legs and under Frame is in solid white oak and teak,The Sideboard is characterized by strong and simple clean lines with mogensens hall mark use of combining mixing woods/timbers for his designs.
Rare original danish 1950s sideboard,by one of Denmarks leading 20th century important furniture designers.
Borge Mogensen was one of the most important among a generation of scandinavian Danish furniture designers who made the concept of Danish design a world leader,creating international interest and respect for the design and quality of mid century Danish modernism.
Sideboards by Borge mogensen from this period in excellent superb condition as the one offered here are rare.

Børge Mogensen was born in Aalborg, Denmark first training as a cabinetmaker in 1934,and studied furniture design at the Danish School 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 Mogensen studied under Karre clint.
Between 1942 and 1950 he was head of FDB’s furniture design studio,after which he found his own design studio in 1950.
Borge Mogensen was commited to producing classical,simple and highly functional furniture,Mogensen exhibited almost every year at the Copenhagen Cabinetmaker's Guild Exhibitions. He was also the Head of Furniture Design during the 1940s for the Danish Cooperative Wholesale Society. His furniture, strongly representative of his training as a traditional craftsman, with its simple clean lnes was greatly appreciated by a public who had not yet become interested in modernism and the changes its influence had created on furniture design.
Mogensen appeased these sceptics with his classical designs A 1951 interior for the Cabinetmaker's show combined Danish oak with leather upholstery and slate tiling in a way that articulated a new grouping of materials. "This is Where We Live, " a family room set he designed in 1953, dealt with the new concept of a living room.
Mogensen also collaborated extensively with weaver Lis Ahlmann on textile designs, and,after His Mentor karre Clints death in 1954, succeeded him as designer to the Danish Museum of Decorative Art.