Boerge Mogensen is one of the best furniture designers symbolising the essence of Danish furniture design. Boerge Mogensen is a master of simpler and smarter furniture designs. Boerge Mogensen is best known for his furniture designs like the Hunting chair, the Shell chair, the Spokebach sofa and the Sleigh chair.
Borge Mogensen, the “Grand Old Man” of Danish furniture design, was born in Aalborg, Denmark, in 1914. His first occupation was that of a cabinet maker. He continued with this job until 1936, at which time he enrolled at Copenhagen’s College of Arts and Crafts. Mogensen also studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1938-41.Mogensen had the soul of an artist, but his mind was very analytical. He began to thoroughly study modern households so that he could design useful furniture for them. His analyses included measuring the dimensions of common household items and tallying how many such items the average household might own. Mogensen did this in order to design the dimensions of his storage units. The culmination of his efforts was a manual that detailed the number and dimensions of drawers and shelves that a modern family would need in order to store their most common belongings.