Carlton Fine Art & Antique Centre

Description

Vintage Rosewood extending dining table designed by Helge Vestergaard Jensen for Soren Horn.Designed in 1957.In excellent condition.Measures 4ft 7inches when closed.Measures 6ft 2inches when fully extended.Helge Vestergaard Jensen (1917-1987) was a Danish furniture designer whose work is characterized by its minimized constructions in order to obtain simple and elegant results. Vestergaard Jensen is most famous for his 1955 daybed design, which was made in an limited edition likewise his other furniture designs. Even though Vestergaard Jensen is not particular well known among the public, his furniture designs are highly demanded because of the limited numbers and his sense of craftsmanship, detail and his uncom-promising approach to his design, which was never mass produced. Vestergaard Jensen collaborated with the skilled cabinetmaker Peder Pedersen and together they were regular exhibitors at the Cabinet-makers' Guild Exhibitions where always set new standards for what one might expect of a piece of furniture.