Meet partner and designer in OXDENMARQ, Dennis Marquart:

When we set out back in 2003, our goal was to produce reasonably priced furniture from exclusive materials like vegetable tanned saddle leather. Making affordable furniture is a core value we still pursue in everything we do. Back in the Sixties, and unlike today, a lot of the now famous Danish Design products, furniture and other products, were affordable for the middle class. That is sadly no longer the case, but at OXDENMARQ we strive hard to make affordable furniture from exclusive materials.    

- The leather gave us our name OX. Later on, we have added marble and other materials always building on my own background as a craftsman. Craftsmanship is key for us in everything we do.

Before finishing his design studies at the Copenhagen Design University, Dennis Marquart did a Blacksmith education. This background is extremely useful when developing and designing products.   

- I like to keep my designs simple and to let the materials do the talking. When we develop new products, I almost always make the prototypes myself because then I can see how the materials can work together with my design ideas.

As one of the few Danish Furniture producers, OXDENMARQ preserves a large part of their production in Denmark.

- As a family man, it is extremely cool to have pieces at home – often old first-edition pieces - where the patina reflects the growing up of our children.

Many OX products are shaped around marble or vegetable-tanned saddle leather. Stone and leather are materials that will, and should, get marks over time. But they will also age with a very special beauty. When you learn to appreciate the beauty of maturity and of time passing, you have learned to appreciate patina the way it should be appreciated.