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Designer Resume:
Arne Jacobsen(1902-1971) Arne Jacobsen built up a studiowhere it inspired one of the most commercially successful chair models in design history. And he bought a plywood chair designed by Charles Eames and installed the chair in it. The three-legged Ant chair (1951), known as a classic today, was sold in millions. It contains two simple elements: tubular steel legs and a springy seat and back formed out of a continuous piece of plywood in a range of vivid colors. After training as a mason, Jacobsen began studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen where he won a silver medal for a chair that was then exhibited at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Art Decoratifs in Paris.. First among Jacobsen's important architectural commissions was the Bellav ista housing project, Copenhagen (1930-1934). Best known and most fully integrated works, are the SAS Air Terminal and the Royal Hotel Copenhagen for which Jacobsen designed every detail from sculptural furnishings such as his elegant Swan and Egg chairs (1957-1958) to textiles, lighting, ashtrays and cutlery. During the 1960's, Jacobsen's most important work was a unified architectural and interior design scheme for St. Catherine's College, Oxford, which, like his earlier work for the Royal Hotel, involved the design of site-specific furniture. Jacobsen's work is still appealing and elegant today, combining free-form sculptural shapes with the traditional attributes of Scandinavian design, material and structural integrity. Influenced by Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Jacobsen embraced a functionalist approach from the outset. He was the first designer to introduce modernist ideas to Denmark and create industrial furniture that built upon on its craft-based design heritage.
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