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Article: Danish modern. (works by architect and designer Arne Jacobsen)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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The work of Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen provides a timely reminder of humane yet sophisticated Modernist values.
Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971), the subject of a retrospective exhibition at London' Design Museum, was perhaps the most outstanding Danish architect of the twentieth century. But more significantly, he was among the first to make the transition from architect and designer to industrial designer. Architects had designed furniture before, with varying success -- Hoffmann in Vienna, Lloyd Wright in Chicago and Mackintosh in Glasgow -- but only for use in their buildings. Jacobsen's objects, from chairs to cutlery, were born of imperative post-war ...