Arne Jacobsen
Functionalist architect, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen in 1927, Arne Jacobsen is especially associated with a furniture design of international reputation. Originally from the Danish Modern from the 50’s initiated by the pioneer Kaare Klint, his work gives us a furious urge to speak “Viking”: The factory-city Bellavista in Klampenborg and the ovoid Texaco station of Skovshoved have sat their reputation of Le Corbusier boréal but in 1952, they definitively marked the minds by shaping the slender and stackable Ant (Myren / Fourmi), for a canteen, then its variants of the Seven series, models of aesthetics and ergonomics …
The best selling Danish chair in the world today …
From 1956 to 1961, Jacobsen also designed the interior of the Royal Hotel, now Radisson and first building built in Copenhagen on behalf of the company SAS which is considered his total work of art (“Gesamtkunstwerk”) since it designed the structure as the door knobs. The 3300s, very orthogonal armchairs and sofas, rub shoulders with the greatest concentration per m2 of mythical Drop (dråben / Goutte), Swan (Svanen / Cygne) and Egg Chair (Aegget / Oeuf), from the Hall to the rooms of which only the 606 has retained the original design. The curves of their organic design, like that of the winding staircase, contrast with the straightness of the architecture and still seduce as many enamored amateurs. Comfortable and comforting, they are not close to knowing their swan song thanks to Fritz Hansen, historical editor of these timeless masterpieces.
