January 18, 2009

Arne Jacobsen - Danish obese man

Arne Jacobsen was born in 1902 in Copenhagen. He first studied as a bricklayer at the technical school and later as an architect at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts (Royal Danish Kunstakademie). He started his own architectural office in the town of Hellerup 1930th There, he created some of the most influential and innovative design in the middle of the century.

As early as 1925 showed Arne Jacobsen chair he designed the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modernes" in Paris, for which he won a silver medal.

In 1929 Jacobsen won "a House of the Future" contest. He and his associates Flemming Lassen designed furnishings, furniture, colors and fabrics for a circular structure, including a landing pad for helicopters on the roof. This design method - participation in every stage of the process - would come to characterize Jacobsen's future work and result in his most famous designs.

Jacobsen lived in Sweden from 1943 to 1949 when he fled from the German occupation of Denmark. In Sweden, worked Arne and his wife, Jonna, together with a range of textile prints and wallpapers.

After returning to Denmark in 1949, he began his famous work on Monk Farm school until the mid 1950's. At Mungegård Jacobsen designed the "Tongue" chair, which has obvious connections to his famous "Ant" from 1952.

Both chairs are stackable, has three legs and had its seat and back taken from one piece of plywood. "The Ant" evolved into "Series 7" chairs 1955th Those who see the versions on four legs and wheels.

In 1956, Jacobsen started work at the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The building was not an immediate success, and actually won a contest for the ugliest building in town. From SAS came the popular track "Swan," " The Egg "and" The Drop ".

Jacobsen once said that "it has been said for years that when a thing is practical and functional, it is also beautiful. I think not." These classics seem to contradict this claim, because they all are sculpturally unique and designed to be used.

1956 til 1965, Arne Jacobsen, a professor of architecture at the Schools for Brugskunst in Copenhagen. His elegant feature all SAS Royal Hotel and the schools Jacobsen had built in and around Copenhagen persuaded the Oxford principals who toured Scandinavia in search of an architect for St Catherine's College that he was the perfect candidate.

When Jacobson, a Dane who speaks very little English and rarely leaves his studio in Copenhagen was hired in 1958 to develop a new college of Oxford University there was a certain excitement. An architect who sent a letter to The Times and called it the worst insult to British architecture since the 1100s, when a Frenchman had been tasked to manage the rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral.

Arne Jacobsen began in spite of these protests were the work of the design of St Catherine's College. He considered that the design of each individual part of a building must be in harmony - right down to the door handle. He insisted on adding a clause in his contract that said: "Professor Jacobsen should do as much as possible, of landscape design and construction of tools and equipment."

From the 1950s onwards dominated Jacobsen, or "the fat man" as he was called the Danish architecture. For the rest of the world he is regarded, however, primarily as a furniture and product designer.