Provenance: Private Danish collection. Acquired by present owner's grandfather.

Model presented at The Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition at Designmuseum Danmark, 1951.

Literature: Grete Jalk [ed.]: “40 Years of Danish Furniture Design”, vol. 3, p. 189.

In the years 1950–1951 Børge Mogensen explored furniture designs characterized by solid wooden frames reinforced with stretchers and pieces of leather strapped on to form a seat and back, the type of furniture designed for a “Hunting Cabin”. This prototype with its low frame and girth straps resembles Mogensen's “Hunting Chair” (1950) where the leather is fastened in the same belt like manner in the back, and the solid oak frame reinforced with round stretchers. Same features re-appear in the rustic, Spanish inspired dining room suite Mogensen exhibits the following year at the 1951 Cabinetmakers' Guild exhibition, where the final and refined version of this present prototype chair also was exhibited. Now without the wide top stretcher in the back and without the loose leather seat cushion. These models are all seen as robust and somewhat “romantic” predecessors of the iconic “Spanish Chair” designed in 1958.