Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen was one of the most accomplished Danish designers and architects of the 20th century. Its elegant style embraces functionality and the clean lines of modernism with organic and sensual shapes. Born in Copenhagen in 1902, he studied architecture and graduated together with Erik Moller. He won the architectural competition to design Aarhus Town Hall together with designer Hans J Wegner. Between 1956 and 1960 he worked at the SAS Royal Hotel (now the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel) in Copenhagen, a building conceived as a total work of art. The three architects designed every detail, from the Egg Chair to the Swan Chair, down to the cutlery in the building. In 1956 he became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. There were many pioneering buildings of Scandinavian modernism designed by Jacobsen, and many pieces of furniture designed by him, always conceived with a view to producing objects in an industrial way. His most famous projects are certainly the chairs, including the 1952 Ant, the 7 Series which have enjoyed real commercial success.