Bodil & Poul Gøtzsche attributed – desk
A small desk with club shaped legs, Two drawers with brass handles. Solid Oregon pine.
Probably made by cabinemaker E. With Nielsen circa 1936.
Width 71 cm, length 122 cm, height 71 cm
A desk of same proportions and overall form with club shaped legs presented at the 1936 Copenhagen Cabinetmakers` Guild Exhibition.
The architect couple Agnes Bodil Bohn-Jespersen and Poul Gøtzsche are largely forgotten today but was the first “Modernist” couple to exhibit with the cabinetmakers. Preceding the partnerships of the Kindt-Larsen’s and Ditzel’s, they would from 1934 and onwards in the late 1930’s present modernist furniture, simple with a naive natural sturdy appearance.