Product Gallery
Video
Arne Jacobsen
Denmark (1902–1971)
While architecture was Arne Jacobsen‘s primary focus, he also worked with lighting, textiles, furniture and industrial design, approaching all projects with the same uncompromising perfectionism that defined his entire prolific career. Striving for an ideal balance of organic simplicity and functionalism, he considered every element down to the smallest details and constantly drew inspiration from nature, whose organic shapes informed several of his furniture pieces. Jacobsen’s great love of flowers and landscape gardening also manifested itself in a number of watercolors, wallpapers, and fabrics.
Jacobsen initially trained as a mason and, after graduating from a technical college in Copenhagen in 1924, began his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Here, lecturers and leading designers such as Kaare Klint and Kay Fisker, known for their rigorous design approach, came to deeply influence Jacobsen’s work. Jacobsen graduated with an architecture degree in 1927, having already begun to establish himself as a talented architect. In the mid-1920s, he made his mark with designs and ideas that later contributed to the end of romantic neoclassicism – a period of which Jacobsen truly made a name for himself when, together with his friend and fellow student Flemming Lassen, he won a competition to design the House of the Future in Copenhagen in 1929. He went on to design a number of villas before creating the functionalist Bellavista housing estate, which was built in 1932-1934 and strongly inspired by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. From then on, Jacobsen’s career gathered momentum with large buildings and, later, with furniture and interior design.
An extremely productive architect and designer, Jacobsen nevertheless made time to teach. For nearly a decade, from 1956 to 1965, he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and was subsequently awarded honorary doctorates from both the University of Oxford and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Jacobsen was also a member of a number of European academy councils. The now world-famous architect received multiple Danish and international awards, including the RIBA Bronze Medal in 1963 and the Medaille d’Or from the Académie d’Architecture de France in 1971.
More in Furniture
View All![Sir Vito Small Tables BB Italia](https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/s/sir-vito-small-table/Sir_Vito_Small_Tables_BB_Italia.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=800&s=0bb03005a0313fa5a00425593f75f358 800w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/s/sir-vito-small-table/Sir_Vito_Small_Tables_BB_Italia.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=600&s=344ad35f12af85fe527fd07d1b7e28f6 600w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/s/sir-vito-small-table/Sir_Vito_Small_Tables_BB_Italia.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=300&s=db43071c13c74fbaf6719531afe2be77 300w)
by Studio Kairos
for B&B Italia
Sir Vito Small Table
![LC7 Outdoor Le Corbusier Perriand Jeanneret Cassina 3](https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/l/lc7-outdoor/LC7-Outdoor-Le-Corbusier-Perriand-Jeanneret-Cassina-3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1565&s=61540931dcd5cbd2fa86e9d7920ab327 1565w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/l/lc7-outdoor/LC7-Outdoor-Le-Corbusier-Perriand-Jeanneret-Cassina-3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1000&s=67f167dc1f82cf41fa5afc249c866dd4 1000w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/l/lc7-outdoor/LC7-Outdoor-Le-Corbusier-Perriand-Jeanneret-Cassina-3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=600&s=7428637485c633b1037223337e22bb5a 600w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/l/lc7-outdoor/LC7-Outdoor-Le-Corbusier-Perriand-Jeanneret-Cassina-3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=300&s=a7db363a26a6dd789cb7fcbadfcea1b0 300w)
by Le Corbusier, Perriand, Jeanneret
for Cassina
LC7 Outdoor
![Kalos Lounge Antoni Citterio BB Italia 37](https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/k/kalos-lounge/Kalos-Lounge-Antoni-Citterio-BB-Italia-37.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1565&s=0dc6835b2a4e656be74da95e95b43228 1565w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/k/kalos-lounge/Kalos-Lounge-Antoni-Citterio-BB-Italia-37.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1000&s=e25f86d543daf4527e38901d26e56b61 1000w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/k/kalos-lounge/Kalos-Lounge-Antoni-Citterio-BB-Italia-37.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=600&s=a63f85b681514e381a27cb2991336678 600w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/k/kalos-lounge/Kalos-Lounge-Antoni-Citterio-BB-Italia-37.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=300&s=92fb5022770c722126f1047a5cad9088 300w)
by Antonio Citterio
for Maxalto
Kalos Lounge
More in Arne Jacobsen
View All![Bellevue Floor Lamp AJ7 Arne Jacobsen 10](https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/b/bellevue-floor-lamp/Bellevue-Floor-Lamp-AJ7-Arne-Jacobsen-10.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1500&s=c6baf1ee89737e777150d4a3a2be9737 1500w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/b/bellevue-floor-lamp/Bellevue-Floor-Lamp-AJ7-Arne-Jacobsen-10.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1000&s=0a4564c9af77ab941d6b91e7563a39f4 1000w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/b/bellevue-floor-lamp/Bellevue-Floor-Lamp-AJ7-Arne-Jacobsen-10.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=600&s=a145f8ae46fd2bbe946435d5e3d8fe55 600w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/b/bellevue-floor-lamp/Bellevue-Floor-Lamp-AJ7-Arne-Jacobsen-10.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=300&s=8b1e96e66e5855028310cc5c25469c01 300w)
From $1,170
by Arne Jacobsen
for &Tradition
Bellevue Floor Lamp
![Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6](https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/m/mayor-aj5-sofa-sale/Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1565&s=c5c4d27743cf7195ba5bab64ed5bdec4 1565w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/m/mayor-aj5-sofa-sale/Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1000&s=913682c40bf71700c7af7eaabb8902e1 1000w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/m/mayor-aj5-sofa-sale/Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=600&s=2dcc3d936a7d5e082b7ab4ffc99c3dd3 600w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/m/mayor-aj5-sofa-sale/Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=300&s=fa890363d220ff40054b11c0b7862f89 300w)
$5,850
by Arne Jacobsen
for &Tradition
Mayor AJ5 Sofa — SALE
![Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6](https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/m/mayor-aj5-sofa-sale/Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1565&s=c5c4d27743cf7195ba5bab64ed5bdec4 1565w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/m/mayor-aj5-sofa-sale/Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=1000&s=913682c40bf71700c7af7eaabb8902e1 1000w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/m/mayor-aj5-sofa-sale/Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=600&s=2dcc3d936a7d5e082b7ab4ffc99c3dd3 600w, https://context-gallery.imgix.net/products/m/mayor-aj5-sofa-sale/Mayor-sofa-AJ5-Arne-Jacobsen-Flemming-Lassen-andtradition-6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=60&w=300&s=fa890363d220ff40054b11c0b7862f89 300w)
by Arne Jacobsen
for &Tradition