Dezeen has teamed up with Carl Hansen & Son for a live talk exploring the global impact of Danish design. The talk is now live!
Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs is joined by the Danish furniture manufacturer's CEO, Knud Erik Hansen, to discuss its 110-year-long history and the lasting impact of Danish design on the global market.
Founded in 1908 by cabinet maker Carl Hansen, the company is one of the biggest producers of midcentury Danish furniture in the world.
Knud Erik Hansen, CEO of Carl Hansen & Son
The company's connection to Denmark's design legacy began in 1949 when it collaborated with designer Hans J Wegner on a collection of furniture, which included the now-iconic Wishbone chair.
Since the 1950s, Carl Hansen & Son has been the largest producer of Wegner's furniture in the world, while also producing and preserving the work of several other giants of Danish design including Arne Jacobsen, Kaare Klint, Bodil Kjær, Børge Morgensen and Poul Kjærholm amongst others. "This collaboration and the many that followed demonstrated what can be achieved when unprecedented and uncompromising quality, design and production come together," the brand explained to Dezeen.

With his grandfather, father, mother and brother all having run the company, Hansen has spent his life immersed in an environment that has fostered some of the best-known designers to have come out of Denmark.
Before taking over the family business, Hansen worked for m...