Skovby

Skovby is a Danish furniture company founded in 1933 by cabinetmaker Thorvald Rasmussen as Skovby Møbelfabrik, and still family-owned three generations later – his son Villy and grandsons Preben and Jørgen Rasmussen carried it on. Production stays in Denmark, in a factory that now works more like a high-tech engineering shop than a traditional cabinetmaker’s workshop.

Function has been the organising idea: dining tables with patented extension systems, chairs and storage designed to make a room work harder rather than stand-alone objects. The company also builds its waste into the range – stool #840 is made from production offcuts, and shavings and surplus wood are burned to heat the factory.