No.55 coffee table, small, white oil oak

Aakjaer Furniture's No. 55 coffee table represents Danish functionalism at its most elegant. Designed by Jørgen Aakjær Jørgensen, the coffee table features a triangular top with softened corners and slightly raised edges that add just the right amount of character to an otherwise classic look. The timelessly stylish No. 55 is easy to imagine at the centre of a living room next to a sofa, though its pared-back form serves just as well in public spaces like hotel lobbies and restaurants.

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.