In 1950 Christian Flensted (1920-1994) and Grethe Flensted (1922-2014) returned to Denmark after having spent their honeymoon in the United States of America. They had travelled back and forth by ship - and even though they were married, they had to sleep in separate cabins on the ship, as the times dictated gender segregation.
Back home in Denmark, Christian wondered what their next step should be. He was looking for something that could sustain their little family, with a little baby boy, Ole, on the way. Christian liked the idea of being self-sufficient and being able to live off vegetables from their own garden, but it would probably be good having another income on the side.
Through his time as an advertising agent, Christian had been deeply involved in design, and back home in Denmark, he started delving deeper into the old Danish tradition of making straw-mobiles to hang over a child's cradle; a tradition meant to chase off bad spirits from the baby.
In 1953, in the occasion of the baptism of his second child, Mette Flensted, Christian made a mobile with two pieces of straw, some thread, and three paper storks. This became the starting point for the company Flensted Mobiles, founded in 1954.
