LEGO began in a carpenter's workshop
From wooden toys to a universe of bricks.
In 1932, a Danish carpenter named Ole Kirk Christiansen lost his workshop to fire and his customers to depression. He turned to what he had left: scrap wood, and children who still wanted to play. The name LEGO came from "leg godt" — play well. The plastic brick would arrive twenty years later, but the philosophy was already there in the wood shavings.
Editor's Note
A reminder that most enduring companies were built during the hardest years, not the easiest.
