Innovative Design
Some years ago, the architects Rud Thygesen and Johnny Sørensen proposed a design for a stackable chair to the manufacturer Magnus Olesen. The chair's legs - laminated in a 90-degree curve - should be mortised directly into the circular laminated frame.

It was a very daring proposal that also proved to be difficult to accomplish at a satisfactory quality level. But Flemming Olesen, responsible for manufacturing at Magnus Olesen, found a solution that in its simplicity was an imitation of the growth principle in nature, where branches are joined to the trunk in conical wedges that grow together with the growth rings of the trunk.

Flemming Olesen became so engrossed with the possibilities in this idea that he used months of his spare time to find out how the principle could be used to the best possible advantage in the assembly of furniture components.

The research and the many experiments gave a solution that proved to be good enough to ensure that all the quality norms in force could be met.

The creative result was immediately utilized in the furniture series that Rud Thygesen and Johnny Sørensen developed and that was presented as the 8000 series.

The technical result led to taking out a patent for the basic principles of the system. It should be noted here that patenting is very unusual in connection with furniture construction because all the original possibilities in the field would seem to have already been exploited. Nevertheless, in this case, the originality of the idea is proven by getting patent rights in 34 different countries so far.