Mid Century Pair of Mogens Koch ‘Mk-16’ Safari Chair, Folding Directors chair, Danish, 1970s
 
Pair of vintage leather & teak folding Safari Chairs, Model ‘MK 16 Safari’ originally designed by Mogens Koch in 1932, reproduced by various companies over the years.
 
Manufacturer unknown.
 
Black leather seats and back rest, beautiful brass detail.  Solid teak frame. A great looking pair of chairs.
 
Danish, 1970s
 
Condition: Good vintage condition,
 
Dimensions:    50 Cms Width x 54 Cms Depth x 89 Cms Height / Seat Height 46 Cms Height
 
Mogens Koch: furniture designed a lot of award winning mid-century furniture. The Danish architect was known for his functional approach to furniture design and for prioritising comfort and accessibility. Koch also drew on older traditions and techniques. His chairs and tables show the influence of the Shaker Style and English pieces of the 18th century. Koch was born in Copenhagen and attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating, he worked as an assistant to Kaare Klint, an important figure in Danish modernism who was responsible for establishing the furniture design programme at Koch’s alma mater. Klint favoured historical styles and inspired Koch to view furniture design as an evolutionary process built on the traditions of the past. Over the course of their partnership, in the late 1920s, Koch began creating modular bookcases.
 
In 1932, Rud Rasmussen began to produce Koch designs. An early Koch seating design that the Danish manufacturer made was the MK Safari chair, an unassuming folding chair based on traditional British campaign furniture. Also known as safari or directors chairs. It greatly resembles Klint’s own Safari chair which was designed in 1933 and was also inspired by military furniture. It became one of Koch’s signature chairs