Name: MK10041 Model 52 Sofa
Brand: Carl Hansen & Søn
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The sofa's upholstered section is loosely placed on a visible, solid wood frame whose top rowholds the seat securely in place. Koch believed in honest design and was opposed to legs that appeared seemingly out of nowhere, seeing this as cheating. He similarly disapproved of using upholstery to hide cheap wood and felt that every design's construction should be of high quality throughout. The Model 52 Sofa's visible frame structure exemplifies the Danish functionalists' idiom of separating the bearing part from the borne part - or the frame from the seat - to fully showthe furniture's construction and highlight the high-quality, natural materials, thus making the construction a design feature in and of itself. The frame is crafted from solid wood and the seat/back is upholstered with leather.

Shown in Oak - Oil Finish and Sif 98 Leather

MK10041 Model 52 Sofa

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Mogens Koch

Mogens Koch was born in 1898, Denmark. He studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, In 1925-1932 worked for Carl Petersen, Ivar Bentsen and Kaare Klint. His most famous piece is the square book case which was designed for his own home in 1928. It has a particularly flexible, space saving designed, and it was adjustable for the book formats of the future. Koch was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1950-1968. His numerous awards include the Eckersberg Medal in 1938, the C. F. Hansen Medal in 1963, and the ID Prize in 1992.

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