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Mogens Lassen (20 February 1901 – 14 December 1987) was a
Mogens Lassen was born on 20 February 1901 in
"Mogens Lassen"
, ''galerie møbler''. Retrieved 29 October 2011. and folding Egyptian coffee table (1940) originally produced by A. J. Iversen.Andrew Hollingsworth, ''Danish Modern'', Gibbs Smith, p. 64.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lassen, Mogens Danish furniture designers Architects from Copenhagen Designers from Copenhagen 1901 births 1987 deaths Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Danish modern Recipients of the C.F. Hansen Medal 20th-century Danish architects
Modernist
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...
Danish architect and designer, working within the idiom of the International Style
The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. It is defined by strict adherence to Functionalism (architecture), functional and Fo ...
. He mainly designed residential buildings, both in the form of single-family houses and apartment blocks. He was the brother of Flemming Lassen
Flemming Lassen (23 February 1902 – 18 February 1984) was a Modernist architecture, Modernist Denmark, Danish architect and designer, working within the idiom of the International style (architecture), International Style. Among his most notabl ...
, also an architect.
Biography
Mogens Lassen was born on 20 February 1901 in Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
into an artistic family. His father Hans Vilhelm Lassen was a decorative painter and his mother, Ingeborg Winding, was a painter. He trained as a mason before being admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts () has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.
History
The Royal Danish Academy of Portraiture, Sculpture, and Architecture in Cope ...
in 1923, but underwent further architectural training at various practices in Copenhagen, particularly with Tyge Hvass
Tyge Hvass (5 July 1885 – 4 September 1963) was a Danish functionalism (architecture), functionalist architect. He was most notable for his design work on the J.F. Willumsens Museum in Frederikssund.
Biography
Hvass was born in Viborg M ...
from 1925 to 1934. During a stay in Paris
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in 1927 to 1928, where he worked for the Danish company Christiani & Nielsen
Christiani & Nielsen was a construction contractor with major operations worldwide. It still trades in Thailand.
History
Christiani & Nielsen was established by Rudolf Christiani, a Danish civil engineer, and Aage Nielsen, a captain in the Roya ...
, he became acquainted with Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , ; ), was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture ...
's revolutionary works which inspired him to design innovative modern houses in reinforced concrete on his return to Denmark. He set up his own practice in 1935.
Furniture
In addition to his architectural work, Lassen was also a keen furniture designer. As a result of his fine craftsmanship and his search for simplicity, his steel-based furniture from the 1930s added a new dimension to the modernist movement. His later designs in wood still form part of classicalDanish Modern
Danish modern also known as Scandinavian modern is a style of minimalist furniture and housewares from Denmark associated with the Danish design movement. In the 1920s, Kaare Klint embraced the principles of Bauhaus modernism in furniture de ...
, especially his three-legged stool, ''galerie møbler''. Retrieved 29 October 2011. and folding Egyptian coffee table (1940) originally produced by A. J. Iversen.Andrew Hollingsworth, ''Danish Modern'', Gibbs Smith, p. 64.
See also
*Functionalism (architecture)
In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on their purpose and function. An international functionalist architecture movement emerged in the wake of World War I, as part of the wave of Modernis ...
* Architecture of Denmark
The architecture of Denmark has its origins in the Viking Age, revealed by archaeological finds. It was established in the Middle Ages when first Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, then Gothic architecture, Gothic churches and cathedrals, wer ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lassen, Mogens Danish furniture designers Architects from Copenhagen Designers from Copenhagen 1901 births 1987 deaths Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Danish modern Recipients of the C.F. Hansen Medal 20th-century Danish architects