Aksel Bender Madsen

After training as a cabinetmaker, he attended the Furniture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1940.

Aksel Bender Madsen received the Cabinetmakers Guild annual prize (Snedkerprisen) in 1956 and 1961.

Their most notable work is the Metropolitan Chair, in bent plywood, which was exhibited in 1949 and manufactured by Fritz Hansen from 1952.

[4] In Madsen's own words: "What Ejner Larsen and I have made has always been in line with the principles we learnt from Kaare Klint about what is functional and what is natural.

"[5] Madsen also taught at the Danish Design School (Danmarks Designskole) in Copenhagen from 1946 to 1954.