Mogens Koch

Lifetime

1898–1992

Country

Denmark

Mogens Koch was born in 1898 in Frederiksberg. He studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, where he was a pupil of Kaare Klint. From 1925 to 1932, he worked for Carl Petersen, Ivar Bentsen and Klint, and in 1934 he opened his own office. From 1950 to 1968, he was a professor at the Academy. In 1927, he married the weaver Eę Koch (Edel Varming).

He designed the Byggereolen bookcase in 1928 for his own home. According to Möbeldesignmuseum, the folding MK16 chair was created in 1932 for a competition for church furniture and entered production in 1959. Armchairs nos. 50 and 51 date from 1936. The main maker of his furniture from 1932 was Rud. Rasmussen; he also worked with Carl Hansen & Son, and his designs have been produced by Getama since 2020.

As an architect, he expanded the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University together with Steen Eiler Rasmussen, and from 1950 to 1971 he led the restoration of Roskilde Cathedral. He received the Eckersberg Medal (1938), the C.F. Hansen Medal (1963), the Classic Award (1990) and Nationalbanken’s jubilee award (1990). His work is held by the Danish Modern Museum, the Museum of Furniture Studies in Stockholm and the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg. He died in Copenhagen in 1992.