Carsten Thor founded Thors Design in 2002. He bought a few pillars of azobé wood from the decommissioned Korsør Harbour and cut them into wooden tiles. This first amount of wood was used to make a beautiful wooden terrace. He loved the material and the atmosphere it created, and decided to buy the remaining 1500 cubic meters from the harbour. It turned out to be a rather bold move. It soon became apparent, that the wood had exceptional strength and and this meant that ingenious methods were required to control it. In the following years, many different applications and products were tried and tested.