Ejner Larsen (1917-1987) Ejner Larsen completed his training as a decorator and upholsterer in 1936 and went on to study furniture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1940. He taught at the Academy from 1942 until 1957 while working for various prominent cabinetmakers. Later on Larsen was appointed head of the architecture department at the Christiansborg Palace Administration and from 1977 onwards he worked as a State and Castle Inventory Inspector, resigning in 1986 due to illness. Aksel Bender Madsen (1916-2000) Aksel Bender Madsen completed his cabinetmaker training in 1936 and subsequently studied furniture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1940. He worked for leading Danish designers Kaare Klint and Arne Jacobsen from 1940 to 1943 and then at the architecture office of the Danish Consumers Cooperative Society from 1943 to 1950. Additionally, Bender Madsen taught furniture courses at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,