Dinesen
A family wood-flooring maker founded in Jels in 1898, known for wide solid and engineered planks in Douglas fir, oak, ash and pine.
- Founded
- 1898
- Founded by
- Hans Peter Dinesen
- Based in
- Jels
Pictures © Dinesen, from dinesen.com.
Why it is renowned
Dinesen makes wide floor planks in Jels and delivers them all over the world.1 In 2008 its Douglas planks, up to 12 metres long and 45 centimetres wide, were laid in the 14 exhibition rooms of the Saatchi Gallery in London, renovated by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.23 In Westchester County, New York, the Brooklyn firm Worrell Yeung chose Dinesen Douglas floors for a farmhouse to match its Douglas fir roof beams.4 Wallpaper* describes its plank floors as known for lining design-led homes around the world.5
The story
Hans Peter Dinesen founded the company in 1898 as Jels Savværk, a sawmill and shop in the town of Jels in South Jutland.1 It later took the family name and has passed through five generations, its planks still made in Jels.1 Dinesen selects trees between 80 and 200 years old and works them into solid and engineered planks for floors, panelling and ceilings, in Douglas fir, oak, ash and pine.6
What to know it by
Sources
- Heritage, Dinesen. dinesen.com, read 28 September 2026.
- Saatchi Gallery, Dinesen. dinesen.com, read 28 September 2026.
- Saatchi Gallery Information Pack, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (2011). ahmm.co.uk, read 1 October 2026.
- North Salem Farm, Dinesen. dinesen.com, read 28 September 2026.
- Tour the Dinesen Country Home in Denmark, Wallpaper*. wallpaper.com, read 2 October 2026.
- About Us, Dinesen. dinesen.com, read 28 September 2026.
Checked 2 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.