Vibrant John Mortensen Rosewood Dining Table for Heltborg Møbler
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This chic Danish table will make a premium and coveted addition to any contemporary dining environment. Highly-grained rosewood is teamed with a sophisticated design and crisp detailing. Two generous extensions create a magnificent platform for fine dining, dinner parties and intimate family meals.
Designer John Mortensen began his career in 1959 after graduating from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and earning highest distinctions. Mortensen started out as a cabinet maker for Christensen & Larsen before setting up his own design practice and designing dining, office, and living room furniture for premium Danish and international furniture manufacturers.
Throughout his career, Mortensen specialised in woodwork, creating each prototype in his own workshop before sending them on for production. His cabinetmaking background was perfect for creating wooden furniture with sophistication and finesse. Today his designs have become coveted mid-century modern classics.
Each piece is checked and carefully hand restored at our Kingsland studio workshop. Our focus is preserving the character and patina of the design while ensuring it displays beautifully in a contemporary interior.
Each piece is checked and carefully restored at our Kingsland studio workshop. Our focus is preserving the character and patina of the design while ensuring it displays beautifully in a contemporary interior.
- Joints checked and reglued
- Timber cleaned and stains removed
- Veneer repairs if needed
- Surfaces polished / refinished
Our full collection is showcased at our Eden Terrace gallery. We have parking available beside the building and would love to see you.
All pieces are available for collection in person from our Eden Terrace gallery. We are also happy to provide a quote for delivery throughout New Zealand.
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Vibrant John Mortensen Rosewood Dining Table for Heltborg Møbler
GOOD FORM, 86 Newton Rd, Eden Terrace, Auckland.
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John Mortensen (b. 1930s) is a Danish furniture designer and cabinetmaker whose career spans more than six decades. From a young age he showed a deep interest in woodwork and drawing, leading him to train as a cabinetmaker at Christensen & Larsen in Copenhagen. He graduated with highest honours in 1959, the same year he completed studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Applied Arts. That year also marked the start of his professional career, with his first chair going into production.
In the early 1960s Mortensen gained valuable experience working for Professor Steen Eiler Rasmussen’s studio before establishing his own design workshop with his wife Ulla in 1965. His breakthrough came with a pedestal table produced by Heltborg Møbelfabrik, exported widely to Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Further international recognition followed as his work was produced by renowned Danish manufacturers including Dyrlund, Koefoeds, Skive Møbelfabrik, and Magnus Olesen. Dyrlund’s “Superskyline” office line, one of his most successful designs, even found its way into the Kremlin during the Gorbachev and Yeltsin years.
Mortensen’s career reflects an unusually broad design practice. Alongside furniture, he created home theater systems for the American market, jewellery for Georg Jensen, Christmas ornaments, lighting such as the Lotus Lamp (2012), and custom architectural works including entrances, doors, and sculptures. He also designed interiors for jewellery stores and explored experimental projects such as thermo-roofing systems.
With more than 3,000 designs to his name, Mortensen continues to work in his own workshop, producing unique, hand-crafted pieces. His legacy reflects the strength of Danish Modern traditions: functional, enduring, and elegant, while open to experimentation and adaptation to new needs and markets.
