The sofa was designed in 1945, but the combination of a classic two-seat sofa with English daybed and French chaise longue, was too sophisticated for post-war taste and it did not go into production until 1963.
Borge Mogensen (1914–1972) started his career as a cabinetmaker in 1934.
In 1936 he went on to study at the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts under Professor Kaare Klint before entering the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from where he graduated as an architect in 1942. He became head of design at FDB (the Danish co-op) in 1942 before establishing his own design office in 1950.