His brothers and sisters chose other jobs, he could have done the same. With his slender silhouette, his thin glasses, a white shirt under a navy sweater, Jens Quorning could have been a doctor, a teacher or an architect. But no, as a child, he already spent all his time in his father’s yard. He never imagined any other destiny. His delight is there for all to see: an intelligent mix of passion, excellent craftsmanship and useful modernity. Here’s the portrait of a man who is quite simply as endearing as he is convincing
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Publié le
26/11/2020
Par
François Trégouët
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175
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Børge, the paternal figure who founded the yard in 1967 is still very present. He is a talented designer and craftsman who fell in love with trimarans when he temporarily immigrated to Canada. Today Jens sits less than 15 feet away from where his father worked at the historic Skærbæk headquarters. He praises, as much as I think he admires, his father’s «old school» side of woodworking. He likes the school of empiricism, of the intimate knowledge of materials, of their resistance, of these countless experiments which, successful or failed, helped to forge a conviction. Confronted with theory, w…
