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Arne Jacobsen
1902-71

Jacobsen is famous for designing the fixtures & fittings as well as the buildings. He is probably better known to non-architects as the designer of furniture classics such as the Egg chair, the Swan, Ant and the beautiful but ubiquitous Series 7 chair.

He also designed some key buildings abroad: notably St Catherine's College Oxford, the Royal Danish Embassy in London and The Belvedere Restaurant in Hannover.

1924 becomes an architecture student at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Copenhagen

1927 graduates from the Royal Academy of the Arts

1930 wins his first public project, at Bellevue, Copenhagen

Aarhus Rådhus - Aarhus Town Hall, Jutland, Denmark
Aarhus Town Hall
image © Isabelle Lomholt
Aarhus Town Hall

Key Copenhagen building:

SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen / SAS Royal Hotel København
1960
Hammerichsgade 1, Copenhagen - adj. Tivoli Gardens
Key Danish Building
Royal Hotel Copenhagen, photo © adrian welch


Radisson SAS Royal Hotel was the first Copenhagen skyscraper.
Room 606 features original Jacobsen furniture and fittings.

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SAS Hotel, Copenhagen: provided by Danish Architecture Centre in 2004

Alberto K restaurant is located on the top floor and also features original Arne Jacobsen furniture. Radisson SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen is a 5 star hotel.
Arne Jacobsen Hotel

Bellavista Housing Estate
Strandvejen, Klampenborg, north Copenhagen
1934
Innovative early building. Received an award from Gentofte Borough in 1934. Bellavista was listed in 1987. Restaurant Jacobsen is located here - restoration by architects MAA PAR Ladegaard & Christiansen

Danish National Bank Building
central Copenhagen
1978
Danish National Bank
photo © adrian welch
Arne Jacobsen Building

Stelling Building
Gammeltorv, København Copenhagen
1937
Stelling Building
photo © adrian welch
Stelling's House: former paint store
Café Stelling - original Arne Jacobsen interior from A Stelling’s Paint Shop
Arne Jacobsen Interior

Key Danish buildings by Arne Jacobsen:
Aarhus Town Hall - Århus Radhuset, Jutland
1941
Aarhus Town Hall Annex in 2000 by 3XN Architects

Rødovre City Hall, Rødovre Parkvej, Copenhagen
1952-56

Arne Jacobsen building outside Denmark:
Royal Danish Embassy, London, UK
1977
Royal Danish Embassy London
photograph © adrian welch
Royal Danish Embassy London

St Catherine's College, Oxford, England
1960

The Belvedere Restaurant, Hannover, Germany
1964



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Alan Dunlop of gm+ad, the Glaswegian architects designing the Radisson Hotel Glasgow, familiarised himself with Arne Jacobsen's buildings when his practice won the contract to build the new SAS hotel. Dunlop felt Arne Jacobsen's interior no longer reflected Radisson's attitude to what a modern hotel interior should be, and rather than being an asset the fallout from Jacobsen's hotel became a burden for them. Dunlop considered that 'SAS disliked the Copenhagen building. What gm+ad thought of as a cool, modernist and timeless interior, they would consider to be a cold and dated airport lounge'. July 20.02

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Evergreens & Nevergreens: Exhibition celebrating architect Arne Jacobsen's 100th birthday, at The Lighthouse in Glasgow 2002

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