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		Arne Jacobsen Denmark 1902-1971


	Denmark's principal Modern Period architect and designer was an innovator who commonly combined sculptural and organic forms with traditional attributes of Scandinavian design. As a youth he served as a bricklayer's apprentice before embarking on studies at the School of Architecture, Royal Academy for Art in Copenhagen. While still a student, he showed early promise by winning a major award for a chair exhibited at the 1925 Paris 'Exposition Internationale des Arts D?coratifs' Jacobsen found himself inspired by both by the pavilion of Le Corbusier in Paris and the work of the rationalist architects he saw on a visit to Berlin in 1927. In 1930, he established his own design office and worked freely as an architect, interior, furniture, textile and ceramics designer. He headed this office until his death in 1971. He also returned to the Royal Academy as a professor from 1956 onwards. His best known projects are St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and the SAS Hotel, Copenhagen. His furniture designs have enduring appeal. His famous, Swan Egg and Ant chairs which stand as organic symbols, expressed respectively by forms suggestive of a bird with spread wings, an enveloping oval shell, and the cutout shape of an insect on slender metal legs. Arne Jacobsen remains one of our favorites here at our office.