Advertising | No designer has created more furniture classics than Arne Jacobsen. His first chairs were produced more than 60 years ago, and today they are more popular ever: The Egg™, The Swan™, Drop™, The Ant™ and above all, his Series 7™ model which is the most sold chair ever.
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Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung | Es gibt keinen Designer, dem wir mehr Möbel Klassiker zu verdanken haben als Arne Jacobsen. Seine Entwürfe liegen mehr als 60 Jahre zurück und sind heute populärer denn je: Egg Chair, Swan Chair, Drop Chair, Ant Chair und allen voran sein Series 7 Modell, der meistverkaufte Stuhl aller Zeiten.
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The architect and designer conceptualized the first design hotel, the SAS Royal in Copenhagen at the end of the 1950s. Following his idea of architecture as an overall work of art, he created not only the building, but also the entire interior decoration of cutlery, door fittings, bathroom fittings, chairs and lamps. Every single design has remained a cult classic.
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Der Architekt und Designer entwarf Ende der 50er Jahre das erste Designhotel, das SAS Royal in Kopenhagen. Seiner Idee von Architektur als Gesamtkunstwerk folgend, wurde nicht nur das Gebäude, sondern auch die gesamte Innenausstattung von Besteck über Türgriffe, Badarmaturen bis zu Stühlen und Leuchten von ihm gestaltet und jeder einzelne Entwurf ist bis heute ein Kult Klassiker.
AESTHETIC PERFECTION
His style is attributed to modern functionalism. Influenced by the Bauhaus, he has translated his clear language into minimalistic perfection. „I am suffocating by aesthetics“, he said, and this is easy to believe, because no one else knew how to reduce complex forms to the essentials while combining aesthetic elegance with functionality.
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NATURE AS INSPIRATION
Despite these minimal aesthetics, his designs are clear but not rigid because Jacobsen was inspired by nature. The ideas for seating furniture such as the ant, the swan, or the lily and also floral designs for wallpaper and textiles, were created there. These flower patterns and a font that Jacobsen designed in the 1930s for a Danish town hall have now been revitalized by the company Design Letters. They printed cups, plates, bed linens and much more with the letters and flowers.
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