Kurt Østervig collection

Kurt Østervig (1912–1986) was a Danish furniture designer.

Trained as a shipbuilder in Odense on the Danish island of Funen, Østervig's attachment to wood rather than steel led to his employment as a furniture designer at E. Knudsen's Studio, among the greatest of all time. In 1947, Østervig established his own studio, from which he collaborated with several of Scandinavia's greatest furniture manufacturers. Particularly fond of working with oak, often combined with leather, he designed many special sets of furniture for ships, hotels, cinemas and nursing homes. His distinctive designs aroused wide international interest, resulting in his work being exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Among his more notable pieces from the 1950s are an elegant but simply shaped daybed and a freestanding shelf set with a bar.