Designer: Arne Jacobsen
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Arne Jacobsen
1902–1971

Arne Jacobsen’s iconic industrial and furniture designs shaped the core of Danish design, helping to establish Denmark and Scandinavia as major influences of modernism.

Interesting Facts About Arne Jacobsen

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In 1925, Jacobsen was awarded the silver medal for his chair design at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris while still a student

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Jacobsen’s futuristic flatware design was featured in Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Still from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey showing Jacobsen's futuristic flatware design

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The SAS Royal Hotel (1960) by Jacobsen is considered the first design hotel; a total work of art featuring his trademark qualities of functionality and simplicity, Jacobsen designed both the building and everything within its interior–from lamps and seating to the salt & pepper shakers.

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Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen 1902–1971

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Arne Jacobsen was an architect and designer who approached his work from both perspectives, making major contributions to Functionalism and Danish Modern style. Born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, he won the silver medal for his chair design at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925 while an architecture student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. After winning the Danish Architect’s Association competition for his House of the Future design, he opened his own office in 1929. Jacobsen was forced to flee to Sweden in 1943 following the rise of the Nazi party, but later returned to Denmark ushering in a wave of landmark public and private commissions.

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