Explore Our World of Auctions During Your Summer Holiday!

It is no secret that design furniture from the period between 1925 and 1970 by the many well-known Danish designers is in demand on the auction market. This is also true for the furniture of Børge Mogensen, who as head of FDB’s design studio in the 1940s created quality furniture at reasonable prices for Danish homes. His lifelong mission was to create practical furniture that did not hinder the many aspects of modern people’s lives. At this summer's auctions, we present, for example, his light two-seater sofa with an oak frame that stands as the epitome of solid craftsmanship and comes with a beautiful patina reflecting the life that has taken place around it.

Danish pieces of decorative art have also gained a foothold in homes all over the world, and the ceramic artist Axel Salto is just one of many famous Danish craftsmen. With his distinctive organic idiom, he transcended the boundaries of the ceramic material and transformed the discipline from pottery to an actual artform. His personal guideline was an adherence to the spirit of nature, and his budding, sprouting and rifled styles easily bring to mind a teeming forest floor on a summer’s day or the flora beneath the surface of the sea. Normally, Salto is associated with hammer prices of many hundred thousand Danish kroner, but you now have the opportunity to decorate your home with the most beautiful, small stoneware vase in the budded style for an estimated price of DKK 6,000.

If your interests lean more towards fine art, there are also many choices. You can, for instance, bring a bit of bird life inside your living room with Johannes Larsen's woodcut, where he has neatly portrayed a lapwing with its characteristic feather top. Larsen was part of the Funen Painters and considered Denmark's most eminent bird painter, and you can experience many more of his birds if you take a trip to Møllebakken in Kerteminde during the summer. Here you will find the enthralling Johannes Larsen Museum, established in his private home, which once served as a progressive gathering place for painters, sculptors and writers.

If you do not feel like travelling too far abroad at the moment, you can instead bring a little Parisian atmosphere home to yourself. The artist Karl Schou was also associated with the Funen Painters and was a well-known name on the Danish art scene in the decades around 1900 but has since then been somewhat forgotten. However, his talent cannot be doubted, and he has been described as "one of Denmark's finest impressionist artists" by the Danish author and critic Henrik Wivel. At this summer's auctions, you can become the owner of one of his rare interiors from one of his many travels to the City of Lights, Paris.