Aakjaer Furniture

Aakjaer Furniture's story goes back to 1948, when the Danish carpenter Jørgen Aakjær Jørgensen and his wife Lis Aakjær Jørgensen set up a furniture workshop called Møbelintarsia in southwest Jutland. The small workshop soon grew into a family business, employing more than fifteen cabinetmakers. Jørgensen had trained in Sweden in intarsia, an old wood inlay technique, and it became the signature of his furniture during the golden age of Danish design.

The Møbelintarsia factory closed in the 1980s, but in 2017, Jørgensen's granddaughter Nanna Aakjær Svendsen set out to bring her grandfather's classics back. It was no easy task: no technical drawings had survived, so Nanna tracked down and bought original pieces to work out how they had once been built. The effort paid off, and today Aakjaer Furniture carries that same craft tradition forward, adapted to the way people live now.