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  2. Jens E. Ekornes - Wikipedia

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    In 1966, Ekornes started production of lounge furniture. In 1971, Stressless® chairs were introduced on the Norwegian market. [3] [4] Jens E. Ekornes was the sole owner of the company until 1960, when his brothers Leif and Martin became co-owners in a joint stock company J. E. Ekornes Fabrikker AS. Upon his death in 1976, Martin Ekornes took ...

  3. List of Danish furniture designers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Danish furniture designers. Summary biographies and background on many of the most important players can be found in the Danish modern article which covers Denmark's richest furniture design period.

  4. Scandinavian design - Wikipedia

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    The Brooklyn Museum's 1954 "Design in Scandinavia" exhibition launched "Scandinavian Modern" furniture on the American market. [1]Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.

  5. Jens Petter Ekornes - Wikipedia

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    Jens Petter Ekornes (2 January 1942 – 22 June 2008) was a Norwegian businessperson, known as CEO of Ekornes. He was born in Ørsta as a son of Sigurd Ekornes (1906–) and Margit Helene Pedersen (1912–1983). In August 1963 he married saleswoman Kari Blakstad. [1] His uncle Jens E. Ekornes founded the Ekornes furniture factory and company in ...

  6. Danish modern - Wikipedia

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    Danish modern also known as Scandinavian modern is a style of minimalist furniture and housewares from Denmark associated with the Danish design movement. In the 1920s, Kaare Klint embraced the principles of Bauhaus modernism in furniture design, creating clean, pure lines based on an understanding of classical furniture craftsmanship coupled with careful research into materials, proportions ...

  7. Scan Furniture - Wikipedia

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    Scan Furniture was a co-operative furniture chain that operated six stores in the metropolitan Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area selling modern Scandinavian furniture. Unusually, it was founded in 1938 as a grocery store in Greenbelt, Maryland , which became the Greenbelt Cooperative in 1940.

  8. List of countries with IKEA stores - Wikipedia

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    First IKEA outside Scandinavia. 5 Japan: 1974 Nagoya: 13 First IKEA outside of Europe. IKEA withdrew from the market in 1987 because of stagnant sales, [9] then returned in 2006 by opening a store in Funabashi, Chiba under a distribution partnership with the Mitsubishi Corporation. [10] [11] 6 Germany: 1974 Eching [12] (near Munich) 54 IKEA's ...

  9. Carl Hansen & Søn - Wikipedia

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    Together with four other manufacturers of Wegner furniture, Carl Hansen & Søn established a joint sales company, Salesco, which was responsible for exhibitions and marketing abroad, including on the furniture fairs in Cologne. The Y Chair was a particularly big success for Hansen & Søn, accounting for more than half of its sales.