Mogens was a modest man by nature and not the type who cared about becoming rich

and famous.

He was always sketching, even on Christmas Eve, and passed away with a pencil in his

hand. He loved to retreat to his workroom, which was more of a cave with small pathways

carved out between mountains of papers and objects. It was anything but simple and

stringent, but Mogens loved the cave’s qualities and the feeling of security it conferred. In

fact, he applied this ‘cave’ concept to the houses that he designed, where windows would

never face each other directly across the room.

This is how one of the fathers of functionalism in Denmark, Mogens Lassen, lived his life,

which later brought international fame to Danish design and countless awards and medals,

including the C.F. Hansen Medal, Denmark’s highest architectural honour.

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