Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen (February 11th 1902 - March 24th 1971, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish architect and designer. Its work counts among most important of the Danish functionalist current, which, following the example Le Corbusier or Walter Gropius, preached a Architecture rational and functional. The design developed by Arne Jacobsen posed the bases of the Scandinavian organic modernism and its influence is still very present today. We always nowadays associate the Scandinavian design with the simple, elegant forms and functional calculuses associated with natural and comfortable materials such as Arne Jacobsen itself conceived it.

Course

Until 1924, Arne Jacobsen receives a training in masonry with the Technical School of Copenhagen. It will be allowed later during architecture of the Danish Royal Academy of the Art schools, from where it leaves graduate in 1927. Of 1927 with 1929, it works for the architectural firm of Paul Holsoe but founds his own agency quickly, in 1930, for which it will work until his death. It will develop to with it in particular projects of architecture, decoration, furniture but also of textile and ceramics.

One of its first independent creations is the residential building of Bellavista with Klampenborg (1933 - 1934), in the suburbs of Copenhagen; this realization will contribute to famous of Arne Jacobsen and will establish its reputation of Danish Le Corbusier . In the field of the design, one of its great successes is the chair Ant (Ant) of 1952, which was drawn at the origin for a pharmaceutical laboratory. It is made up of a file and a plywood base and made feet of fine steel tubes, which make an extremely light object of it. Ant and its variations, series 7 or 3107 , became the Danish piece of furniture more sold in the world, product with nearly 5 million specimens; it is also one of the chairs most copied. Another of its major achievements is Royal SAS Hotel of Copenhagen, built between 1958 and 1960, for which it created in 1958 two models of armchairs, them so famous, Egg (Egg) and Swan (Swan). Although he likes to work the synthetic wood and matters, its material of predilection remains steel, that he declines in simple and rigorous forms. The Cylinda-Line series of 1967, made up of cylindrical jugs and dishes, testifies some. The design of the covers used in the film 2001, the odyssey of space (1968) is inspired directly by creations of Jacobsen. More the great project of Arne Jacobsen abroad was the St-Catherine' S College of Oxford of 1964 with 1966, and its famous chair Oxford . He worked also much in Germany, it carried out there for example the new town hall of Mainz, the entry of the Hannover Concert Hall and the administrative house of the powerplant of Hamburg. But it is especially in Denmark that it left the greatest number of architectures: buildings, houses, theaters, schools, hotels or of the factories.

Its work will be distinguished by many international prizes like the Diplôme from honor from Xe Triennial from the Design from Milan in 1954 and on a purely posthumous basis the International Design Award with the Japan in 1991. In 1956, he becomes professor with the Danish Royal Academy of the Art schools of Copenhagen. More than 30 years after its death, the Danish design remains still marked by its print.

See too

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List of famous cabinetmakers

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Collection of the Design Museum of London

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