(The hotel has since been redecorated, but one guest room has been preserved with all-Jacobsen accoutrements.) The Swan, Egg and Drop chairs and the AJ desk lamp were all created as part of Jacobsen’s plan for the SAS Royal Copenhagen Hotel, which opened in 1960. Catherine’s College, Oxford, whose Jacobsen-designed campus opened in 1962 (while still under construction). The tall-backed Oxford chair was made for the use of dons at St. His molded-plywood, three-legged Ant chair (1952) was first designed for the cafeteria of a pharmaceutical company headquarters. Many of Jacobsen’s best-known pieces had their origin in architectural commissions.
Jacobsen was first and foremost an architect, and while he shared his colleagues’ devotion to quality of construction, he was far more open to other materials such as metal and fiberglass. They prized skilled craftsmanship and their primary material was carved, turned and joined wood. The designs of Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl, Børge Mogensen and others grew out of their studies as cabinetmakers. Though Jacobsen is a paragon of Danish modernism, his approach to design was the least “Danish” of those who are counted as his peers. Jacobsen designed furniture that had both gravitas and groove. With their fluid lines and sculptural presence, Jacobsen’s signature pieces - the elegant Swan chair and the cozy-yet-cutting edge Egg chair, both first presented in 1958 - are iconic representations of both the striking aesthetic of the designers of the era and their concomitant attention to practicality and comfort. The eye-catching work of the Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen often introduces new collectors to mid-20th century furniture.
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