This killer Danish Modern teak dining table was designed by H.W. Klein for Bramin in the 1960s. Featuring a rare design, with the legs remaining at the corners when the table is closed or when it is expanded to add the leaf. This allows the feature of the rosewood finger jointed corners, with a subtle carved channel beneath the top of the leg to really stand out. Note how the table apron arcs, narrowing at the center – which is continued along the leaf apron beautiful. All wood glides work like butter and it has been restored and is in amazing condition, with an excellent tonal match between the table top and the leaf. Please note the leaf conveniently stores inside the table when not in use. Dimensions: 35.25″W x 28.25″H x 53″L(leaf stowed(/88.5″L(leaf in use).
The amazing set of 6 quality built teak dining chairs were also designed by H.W. Klein for Bramin in the 1960s and were designed to go with the dining table, and includes two rare arm chairs. They feature the amazing rosewood finger joint details at the corners of the sculptural backrests as well as on the front of the armrests on the pair of head chairs. In amazing condition, freshly oiled, reglued as needed, and reupholstered with new foam and a lovely multi-toned green tweed. Please note that one of the arm chairs is a slightly different model without the flared top at the back of the backrest. We bought them this way and never even noticed until I photographed them today. PLEASE NOTE: as is our policy, we have already deducted 10% off the cost of the chairs as they are sold with the dining table.
Also of note, we also have the matching buffet (see separate listing), also designed by HW Klein as part of the set. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to own a complete matching set! We are offering a 10% discount on the sideboard if it is purchased with the dining table and 6 chairs.
In the last MCM Furniture Design History post, we mentioned that Kaare Klint founded the furniture design department at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1924 and influenced the next generation of Danish furniture designers. The designer in this week’s MCM Pick of the Week, Kai Kristiansen, is one of those designers.
Kristiansen’s style, presumably informed by Klint, is known for clean lines, functionalism, and Kristiansen’s own outside-the-box thinking.
Their works, often made in warm blond wood, domesticated the cold chrome shine of the Bauhaus-influenced International style. In the process, they found a way to dovetail the words “Danish” and “modern” for the first time, joining cabinetmaker-guild traditions of high craftsmanship, quality and comfort with modernist principles of simplicity and graphic beauty.
Grete Jalk (1920-2006) was a Danish designer who made her mark on the design scene in the 1950s and 60s. She pursued an impressive list of academic qualifications, starting with the law and philosophy studies in which she chose to abandon halfway through.Instead, she commenced her design career in 1939 at the Drawing and Applied school for Women, followed by an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker where she graduated in 1946.
Finn Juhl designed, built, and furnished his house, Kratvaenget 15 in 1941-42 with his first wife, Inge-Marie Skaarup. It’s located in Ordrup, just outside of Copenhagen. Juhl lived here until his death in 1989, after which Hanne Wilhelm Hansen, a music publisher who lived with Juhl after he and Skaarup divorced, looked after the house.
The well known furniture school of the Kongilige Danske Kunstakademi (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) produced many famous alumni. One of them was Borge Mogensen, best known for his revolutionary Danish furniture design.
His mentor, Kaare Klint, guided Mogensen to study the proportions of the ideal type of traditional English chairs such as the Windsor chair and update the design into more modern contours.
Trained by cabinetmaker Niels Vodder at the school of interior design in the mid- 1940s.
Further graduated as architect in 1947 at Kunstakadamiet in Copenhagen, with Finn Juhl as professor and mentor.
After graduation Arne Vodder started as Architect at Hindsgaul in Copenhagen and worked, among other design assignments, with office decor.
Niels Otto Møller (b. Århus, 1920 – d. 1982) earned a reputation for creating design of a consistent excellence in quality and workmanship. Møller’s dedication to his craft stemmed from his cabinetmaking apprenticeship, completed in 1939, which was followed by further study at the Århus School of Design.In 1944, Møller founded his own furniture production company, JL Møllers Møbelfabrik, in a tiny workshop in the center of his hometown. While overseeing traditional furniture production in his factory,
Danish designer Peter Hvidt (1916-1986) was trained as an architect and as cabinetmaker at the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen. He exhibited regularly at the Cabinetmaker’s Guild exhibitions, as a designer and as an exhibition architect, and also taught at the School of Arts and Crafts from 1942-45. In 1944 he designed the “Portex” chair, one of the first stacking chairs to come out of Denmark, and opened a furniture design office with Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen.
