No.100 coffee table, smoked oil oak

Aakjaer Furniture's No. 100 coffee table is a fine example of clean-lined Danish aesthetics. Danish designer Jørgen Aakjær Jørgensen created the table back in the 1960s, yet neither its form nor its materials have aged a day. If anything, the No. 100 table brings a distinctly modern presence to today's interiors.

At first glance, the No. 100 might look pared back, but it actually represents Jørgensen at his most playful and experimental. The rounded oak tabletop sits above an angular shelf made from rattan – the meeting of two very different shapes and materials strikes a balance that's interesting in just the right way. The versatile No. 100 is easy to imagine in living rooms at home as well as in public spaces like restaurants and hotel lobbies.

Jørgen AakjærJørgensen

Aakjaer Furniture's story goes back to 1948, when the Danish carpenter Jørgen Aakjær Jørgensen and his wife Lis Aakjær Jørgensen set up a furniture workshop called Møbelintarsia in southwest Jutland. The small workshop soon grew into a family business, employing more than fifteen cabinetmakers. Jørgensen had trained in Sweden in intarsia, an old wood inlay technique, and it became the signature of his furniture during the golden age of Danish design.

The Møbelintarsia factory closed in the 1980s, but in 2017, Jørgensen's granddaughter Nanna Aakjær Svendsen set out to bring her grandfather's classics back. It was no easy task: no technical drawings had survived, so Nanna tracked down and bought original pieces to work out how they had once been built. The effort paid off, and today Aakjaer Furniture carries that same craft tradition forward, adapted to the way people live now.