| Was trained as an architect in Copenhagen and took up the profession as early as in the 1920s. His most famous buildings include Aarhus Town Hall in Denmark, SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen and St. Catherine's College in Oxford, England. His experiments with plywood resulted in the Ant Chair in 1952 and the 3107 chair in 1955 (also known as the Seven chair) both manufactured by Fritz Hansen. His work with the SAS Royal Hotel also brought about some of his most outstanding designs, including the Egg and the Swan chairs, a stainless steel cutlery set now produced by Georg Jensen and a series of lamps manufactured by Louis Poulsen. In 1967 he designed a series of stainless steel tableware for Stelton. Being a perfectionist and a master of details, Arne Jacobsen worked right up to his death in 1971 in London trying to finish the building of the Royal Danish Embassy in Sloane Street. However, the embassy was only completed in 1977. |
