VORDINGBORG, Denmark—The celebrated Danish industrial designer Jens Quistgaard died January 4 at the age of 88, the New York Times reports. Quistgaard created popular designs for the Dansk brand of tableware, which helped "define the Scandinavian Modern style for postwar Americans," according to the Times. Enterpreneur Ted Nierenberg founded the company in 1954 after seeing a piece of Quistgaard's hand-forged flatware in a museum, and Quistgaard continued to design for Dansk until the mid-1980s. Born in Denmark, the designer received his only formal training from his father, the sculptor Harald Quistgaard. Later, he served an apprenticeship at the Danish silversmiths Georg Jensen, and he was a member of the Danish underground during World War II. His work is in the permanent collections of major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Louvre.