Danish architect-designer Mogens Koch (1898–1992) spent a lifetime paring furniture down to its job and nothing more. Trained under Kaare Klint and later a professor at the Royal Danish Academy, he believed good design should cost no more than needed and last far longer than expected. His first studio pieces—the modular bookcase of 1928 and the folding chair sketched in 1933—set the tone: honest joints, human-scaled proportions, parts that store flat or re-stack into new rooms. When FDB Møbler launched its program for affordable, well-made furnishings, Koch joined the effort, refining his shelving boxes (1940s) so factory cutters wasted almost no wood and buyers could add units for decades. The same thinking guided his churches, silverware, and letterforms: cut to the core, keep the craft, let use finish the form. Today Koch’s work fetches collector prices, yet it still fits the lives he designed for—moving easily from one generation, one house, one need to the next.