How designers live: Børge Mogensen

The late Børge Mogensen, famed Danish designer, lived as beautifully as he worked. Enjoy these photographs of his home, taken by Andrew Wood for Magnus Englund's (co-founder of Skandium) excellent book, Scandinavian Living.

Scandinavian Collection at 1stdibs

1stdibs enjoyed record vintage furniture sales last year, selling over a billion dollars worth...an increase of 50% over the previous year.

This year founder Michael Bruno made a trip to Copenhagen and Stockholm in order to expand and add a special Scandinavian Modern collection to the popular website. Bruno calls Scandinavian design "the precursor to mid-century modern" and says there's still plenty of great pieces available in the areas he visited.

He furnishes his own home with half mid-century furniture and half antiques and says that Arne Jacobsen, Jean-Michel Frank and Gio Ponti are his personal favorites.

Here are some beautiful examples from the new collection.

From midcenturymagazine.com
All images from 1stdibs.com

Yellow Carnaby vases by Per Lütken

Sofa by Børge Mogensen

Finn Juhl coffee table

Upholstered Peacock chair by Hans Wegner

Kaare Klint sofa

Rack of Papa Bear chairs by Hans Wegner

Factsheet Denmark

Ever wonder what the Danes officially consider the most representative pieces of furniture from their classic designs of the 1950s and 1960s and into the present? In 2008 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark issued a publication called Factsheet Denmark which listed their most important designers. The publication also included images of pieces of furniture that the Ministry believed to reflect Danish society. Many you could easily guess, while some might surprise you. One of their furniture choices certainly surprised me, and I bet it won't be hard for you to figure out which one...especially when they had so many beautiful examples to choose from.

From denmark.dk

PH Artichoke pendant by Poul Henningsen, 1958
louispoulsen.com

CH 07 by Hans Wegner, 1963
larsenform.com

City Bench by Nanna Ditzel, 1997
nanna-ditzel-design.dk

Chieftain Chair by Finn Juhl, 1949
onecollection.com

PK 22 by Poul Kjaerholm, 1956
1stdibs.com

Spanish Chair by Borge Mogensen
danishdesignstore.com

Ant Chair by Arne Jacobsen, 1952
1stdibs.com

Panton Chairs by Verner Panton, 1967
treadwaygallery.com

Trinidad Chair by Nanna Ditzel, 1993
nanna-ditzel-design.dk

Polyether Chair by Gunnar Aagaard Andersen, 1964
netpublikationer.dk

X-line Chair by Niels Jorgen Haugesen, 1977
architonic.com