Montana Buys Danish Sustainable Furniture Brand Takt

Danish design brand Montana has acquired fellow Dane Takt, the sustainable furniture maker whose FSC-certified, flat-pack products will now sell under the collection name Takt by Montana.

Montana announced the buyout without disclosing financial terms. The deal pulls one of Scandinavia's most ambitious sustainability-focused furniture brands under the roof of a company that has been operating since 1982.

Who is Takt?

A trained physicist and former Lego and Bang & Olufsen executive, Henrik Taudorf Lorensen founded Takt in 2019. The company makes modern Scandinavian furniture from FSC-certified wood that is low-carbon, flat-pack and designed for disassembly.

Its catalogue includes the Cross chair by British design duo Pearson Lloyd and the Spoke sofa by Anderssen & Voll, a piece designed specifically for repair. All existing products and future launches will continue under the Takt by Montana name.

What does the deal change for the products?

Montana CEO Joakim Lassen said he wants Takt's pieces to act as an understated counterpart to Montana's colourful modular furniture, including the Montana System storage, and to bring new sustainability knowledge into the business.

"Takt brings experience with materials and the environment, and we are looking forward to bringing our respective experience together and taking this work even further," Lassen said.

Lorensen will join Montana Furniture's board to share his perspective on sustainability, while Takt employees will be integrated into Montana's organisation "as far as possible", the company said.

A data-driven approach to emissions

Takt has built its reputation on an aggressive sustainability agenda. The brand targets net zero by 2030 and drives emissions down primarily through product design rather than operational cuts.

It assesses the carbon footprint of its products across their entire lifecycle using the EU's Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) single score. Takt also claims to be the only design brand to consistently carry the EU Ecolabel on all of its products.

Lorensen's scientific background shaped that method from the start. "I have a background as a scientist, so it was important to me to start measuring things," he told Dezeen in 2021. "The starting point was to get a grasp of the impact of the choices we're making."

Scale as the next chapter

For Lorensen, the acquisition is a route to reach more customers. By gaining access to Montana's established international infrastructure, he hopes Takt's furniture will find a larger audience than the young brand could build on its own.

"The past few years have been an exciting and instructive journey for TAKT," he said. "We have built a brand where materials and the environment have been central, and we have collaborated with a number of talented and celebrated designers."

"Now it is time for TAKT's next chapter, and we are delighted that it will be written together with Montana."

The acquisition signals how sustainability-led design brands are increasingly finding scale through consolidation rather than independent growth — and it puts Takt's net-zero-by-2030 target on Montana's balance sheet.