Mogensen Bm1

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the mogensen bm1 you’re looking for. A mogensen bm1 — often made from wood, oak and natural fiber — can elevate any home. If you’re shopping for a mogensen bm1, we have 64 options in-stock, while there are 35 modern editions to choose from as well. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect mogensen bm1 — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. When you’re browsing for the right mogensen bm1, those designed in Scandinavian Modern, Modern and Mid-Century Modern styles are of considerable interest. Many designers have produced at least one well-made mogensen bm1 over the years, but those crafted by Børge Mogensen, Fredericia and Carl Hansen & Søn are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

Prices for a mogensen bm1 can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $75 and can go as high as $44,200, while the average can fetch as much as $4,661.

Among the great mid-20th century Danish furniture designers, Børge Mogensen distinguished himself with his faith to traditional values of craftsmanship and honesty of materials.

While peers such as Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl and Arne Jacobsen designed some of the most striking and now iconic furnishings of the era, Mogensen focused on making chairs, sofas and other pieces that were simple, durable and comfortable — and in the long run perhaps more useful and better loved.

Mogensen studied under and later worked for Kaare Klint, a master cabinetmaker whose chief tenets were quality of construction and simplicity of line. Klint was a classicist, who believed that furniture forms should evolve from those of historical models. So, too, in his way was Mogensen, as two of his best-known earlier pieces attest.

His 1945 Spokeback sofa, with hinged arms that can be lowered to facilitate lounging, is a reinterpretation of the venerable Knole settee. With the oval silhouette of its plywood backrest and waterdrop-shaped cutouts, Mogensen’s Shell chair, designed in 1949, can be seen as a novel take on early 19th-century Empire side chairs.

Yet Mogensen shared the aesthetical sensibilities of his most forward-looking colleagues. His cabinets deploy the same spare geometries and lushly figured woods as those of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his disciple Florence Knoll, the chief difference being that Mies and Knoll used chrome steel for the frames and legs of their pieces. The brawny oak frames and slung leather seats and backrests of Mogensen’s Hunting chair (1950) and Spanish chair (1958) display the same hefty construction and appreciation of natural materials seen in the work of Charlotte Perriand and Sergio Rodrigues.

Mogensen designed for function more than sculptural effect. While his chairs may not be the first pieces in a décor to draw the eye, they are often the first to draw in those looking for a comfortable seat.

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