Johannes Andersen, the Danish teak cabinetmaker

Johannes Andersen (1903-1991) is one of the great cabinetmakers of Danish post-war design. Trained in the tradition of Copenhagen workshops, he signed from the 1950s for the publishers CFC Silkeborg, Uldum Møbelfabrik and Trensum a teak furniture of silent elegance: oval coffee tables with tapered legs, sideboards and bookshelves with sculpted handles, armchairs with gentle curves. A production that embodies, without fanfare, the quintessence of the Scandinavian school: right materials, measured lines, irreproachable execution.

Johannes Andersen coffee tables in teak, particularly the Capri model for CFC Silkeborg, remain the cabinetmaker's most recognisable pieces. Scandinavian vintage furniture to find for those wanting a Danish design classic, at the crossroads of elegance and simplicity.