by Lassen Catalogue 2017
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I N TR OD U C I NG TH E BROT HERS M OG ENS LA SSEN F LEM M I NG LA SSEN PR OD UCT PAGES TH E COLLECT IO N IN F OR M ATI ON & M EAS UREMENT S

THE STORY by Lassen is a Danish design company founded in 2008 with the aim of bringing the designs of visionary architect Mogens Lassen back into public consciousness. Later the designs of his brother Flemming Lassen, another of Denmark's great functionalist architects, were added to the collection, followed by those of an internal by Lassen design team. Our mission is to promote good design, whether historical or contemporary. This is why we regularly comb the archives, drawers and cupboards to source inspiration for furniture and accessories designed by Mogens and Flemming Lassen that...

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I NTR OD U C I NG TH E B R OTH ERS Mogens Lassen & Flemming Lassen

I NTR OD U C I NG TH E B R OTH ERS Mogens Lassen & Flemming Lassen

1901-1987 When he was only a child, Mogens Lassen already knew that he would one day become an architect. He purchased books about architecture with his pocket money and surveying and sketching buildings was his hobby. As he was dyslexic and funds were limited, Mogens entered the world of architecture by undertaking an apprenticeship. However, he was also involved in the academic world and turned his skills to assisting with the projects awarded to his friends and colleagues Ole Wanscher, Arne Jacobsen and Finn Juhl. around this time, Mogens was asked to join the renowned studio of...

He was a modest man by nature and not the type who cared about becoming rich and famous. He was always sketching, even on Christmas Eve, and passed away with a pencil in his hand. He loved to retreat to his workroom, which was more of a cave with small pathways carved out between mountains of papers and objects. It was anything but simple and stringent, but Mogens loved the cave's qualities and the feeling of security it conferred. In fact, he applied this 'cave' concept to the houses that he designed, where windows would never face each other directly across the room. This is how one of...

I NTR OD U C I NG TH E B R OTH ERS Mogens Lassen & Flemming Lassen

FLEMMING LASSEN 1902-1984 Architect Flemming Lassen was a modernist and part of the movement to bring functionalism to Denmark. He is particularly renowned for his overstuffed furniture, receiving major international recognition in the design world for his armchairs which today have become known as "the Flemming Lassen style”. Like his brother Mogens Lassen, Flemming already knew from a very young age that he wanted to become an architect. He was born into an artistic family with a father who was a decorative painter and a mother who was also a painter. As a child, he and his brother spent...

FLEMMING LASSEN Competition for a school, 1943

LEF T S I D E Flemming Lassen (seated left) with his colleague Arne Jacobsen RIGHT SIDE Flemming Lassen project with Arne Jacobsen ‘House of the Future‘, 1929

" I N TH E PAST, EVEN T HE GO O D C RAF TS M EN H AD D R AWI NGS T HAT T HEY COU LD WOR K F R OM I N DEFINIT ELY, FO R YE AR S . N OW C H AI R S ARE CHA NGING AS QU I C K LY AS M Y WI F E CHA NGES HER S U MM ER AND WI N TER HAT S – A LL IN T H E NAM E OF FAS H I ON – BUT CHA IR FA S HI ON, TH AT’S EM I NENT LY SENSIBLE" Flemming Lassen F LEM M I N G LA S SE N Prototype of an upholstered chair. The begining of My Own Chair, 1938

THE STORY Architect Mogens Lassen's classic Kubus candleholder first achieved its final form in 1962 after he spent years fine-tuning an iron prototype that stood on his desk. Next to it was a small steam engine that he would activate when his work came to a standstill, giving him time to think of new ideas that would enable him to forge ahead. He was always filled with a fascination for mechanics and the way things worked and fit together. Mogens Lassen loved to experiment with new shapes and functions; he was a perfectionist and dedicated much of his time to experimenting with...

THE STORY Architect Mogens Lassen was very interested in kitchens and dining rooms, being particularly inspired by the large open restaurant kitchens he encountered during his time living in France. Throughout his life, Mogens designed a number of dining tables for the innovative open planned kitchens found in many of his architectural projects. Conekt was designed in 1975 by Mogens Lassen but has never actually been put into production until now. The dining table is an important piece of furniture throughout Scandinavia, acting as the centre of family life where people gather to talk,...

" ON E M U ST CON S I D ER T HE WHO LE. E V E RYTH I NG I S CONNECT ED, JUST A S IT IS IN A M AC H I NE. . . AND IN NAT URE" Mogens Lassen

"Good craftsmanship must be valued.” Mogen Lassen's quotation resonates into the very heart of the by Lassen design ethos. Here high quality materials, uncompromising expression and beautiful craftsmanship are valued in order to make products that can live on for generations. In an understated way, designs are produced that combine function with clean, honest and nuanced aesthetics, whether formed in metal, wood, ceramics or textiles. by Lassen is amongst the few Danish design companies that primarily manufacture locally. The Kubus collection, Frame storage solution, Twin tables and...

MA DE IN DENMA RK Kubus Local craftsmanship since 1962

" T H ER E S H OU LD B E S OMET HING FO R E VERY TASTE, S H OU LDN’ T T HERE? " Flemming Lassen

THE STORY Frame is a flexible storage solution that can trace its design back to a Mogens Lassen sketch from 1943. Inspired to a large extent by cubism, Mogens Lassen envisioned a number of square boxes in cubic frames which could be placed together in different ways creating multiple possibilities for personalised storage designs and arrangements. Perhaps too far-sighted and innovative for its time to imagine that individualised storage constellations would catch on, the system never evolved past the sketch stage. Many years later, the by Lassen design team discovered the original sketch...