The JG Table expresses designer Jørgen Gammelgaard’s desire to create a simple, elegant design with a supportive structure that would not limit the seating around the table. Providing remarkable stability, as well as an intriguing graphic aesthetic.
As a design typology, folding stools are part of a Danish design tradition spearheaded by Kaare Klint, an influential architect, furniture designer and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Kaare Klint inspired designers, such as Jørgen Gammelgaard and Borge Mogensen, to take an analytical approach to material properties and proportions so as to adapt simple, functionalist designs to modern-day needs.