Catalogue Note:
Hvidt & Mølgaard was a Copenhagen-based, Danish design and architectural firm which existed from 1944 until 2009. Founded by Peter Hvidt (1916-1986) and Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen (1907-1993), the company was a pioneering force in Danish furniture design and industrialized production in the 1950s, creating furniture that was easy to mass-produce and economic to transport. Model-309 Cabinet is one of this duo designers classical works among their sideboard series. Both being architects and craft designers, Hvidt and Mølgaard-Nielsen had the ability to give their works an air of the architecture. The geometric lines and the minimalism style and the deduction of the decorative patterns makes this work a protagonist to the viewers. The Model-309 Cabinet contains the aesthetic of the modernist of architecture, which brings the elevates the work itself out of the simple craft but into another realm of architectural astomophere.