The adventurous spirit of our founder is a great source of pride and inspiration for all of us at Scandinavian Designs, Dania Furniture and Scandis. Like many business success stories, ours begins there – with an entrepreneur, a necessity, a sense of adventure and a discovered passion. It was on a trip back to his native country of Norway, after being in the United States for a few years, that our founder began his career in furniture. At the 1963 furniture show in Stavanger, Norway, he met with several small furniture factories that all agreed to give him modest credit on a handshake. "That's how business was done over there in those days," he recalls.