Vintage Danish Mid Century White Oak Coffee Table Attributed to Berge Mogensen.

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table Stand with Shelf Dimensions. 45 W ; 17 D ; 16 H.

Mid-Century Modern coffee table features woven rattan lower shelf and 8" drop leaves on each end. It measures 21-1/2" tall x 45" long (can extend to 61" with both leaves raised) x 21...

Trestle base white oak coffee table with a nice warm patina. Designed by Borge Mogensen. Professional, skilled furniture restoration is an integral part of what we do every day. Our...

Shaker table model 5267 for Danish Furniture makers in Fredericia, Denmark. 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 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, Mogenson’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...