Danish Legacy is a love letter. To beauty. To comfort. To family. To an unrelenting focus on quality - and to our heritage; Danish design.
A family legacy
While our name might be somewhat new, our legacy is quite old. Danish Legacy is built on the remains of Gunnar Falsig Møbelfabrik A/S, and our founder, Rasmus Falsig, is a 6th generation Falsig in the furniture trade. Gunnar Falsig Møbelfabrik was - and is – a respected name among furniture afficionados, and it definitely played its part in the wave of Danish midcentury modern furniture that hit the world from the 1950s and on.
The characteristics of the era – a focus on form and function – ran as a clear red line through all the products, and they still do today. Just under the name Danish Legacy.
The early years
The family started its venture into woodworking in the late 1880s when Laust Falsig founded Bækmarksbro Maskinsnedkeri. In the early 1900s his son Jens Theodor Falsig had a thriving business building farms in the summertime, and when the winter sent him and his men indoors, they made furniture and coffins.
The business of constructing farms ended around 1940, and the new focus on making furniture was honored with the name Bækmarksbro Møbelfabrik. Jens Theodor’s son Tage took over in 1952, and the business started exporting furniture – especially the wardrobes were a big item. Tage’s daughter took over the business that’s still active today – and is a leading manufacturer of coffins.
The Gunnar Falsig Møbelfabrik
Jens Theodor’s two sons started the Brødrene Falsig Møbelfabrik in 1953, and they quickly found a footing in the market with crafted cupboards and escritoires in teak and rosewood. Desks became part of the Falsig offering soon after, and the furniture from this period is always a popular item with people looking for Danish midcentury modern furniture – in Denmark and globally.
The brothers parted ways, and Gunnar Falsig kept the business. For a while in the 1970s he made stereo racks in very large volumes, which meant he had to expand his operation significantly. When stereo racks had eventually peaked, he changed the production to the Falsig Flex-bookcase system, which became wildly popular.
In the 1980s Gunnar Falsig fanned out and started exporting even more – especially in Asia, and a special set of the FORMIO children’s furniture was even made for the emperor of Japan’s daughter. Gunnar’s son Mogens also joined the business in these years.
New furniture was being designed, new markets were being conquered, and a joint venture with Chinese Qumei started in 2000.
Setback and rebirth
This is also around the time where numerous dining chairs and tables saw the light of day, and the Gunnar Falsig Møbelfabrik sold vast amounts of dining room sets in Scandinavia for a few years.
Things were going great – up until they weren’t. In the early 2000s things were starting to look a bit dire, and a lot of large investments weren’t delivering what they should have. In 2002 Gunnar Falsig Møbelfabrik A/S shut its doors for good while the joint venture in China lived on.
From 2002-2012 Gunnar’s son Mogens carried on with importing furniture from the Chinese joint venture, and Rasmus Falsig, 6th generation, joined what was left of the business, till they closed it down in 2012. For more than a decade the legacy of Gunnar Falsig lived on only in furniture auctions - and Rasmus’ head.
In 2024 Rasmus relaunched the Falsig name in the furniture industry. Danish Legacy is an homage to heritage – his own and the one passed down to all of us from the great minds of the Danish design traditions.