Arne Jacobsen is one of the many brilliant Danish furniture designers. Arne Jacobsen made The Egg (Aegget), The Swann (Svanen), The Ant (myren) and many other furniture designs. Arne Jacobsen’s designs are considered timeless furniture classic today.Arne Jacobsen, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 11th, 1902, and subsequently became Denmark’s most important, and successful architects and designers of the 20th century. His work has been copied, used abstractly, and mimicked so many times that he got world famous by the mere fact that he got copied so much. He created had knack for creating futuristic indoor landscapes when he put a building and its insides together, and it was out of him seeing what no one else could see, he stuck iconic status with his furniture he had created to build those interior story-scapes. He was a strong individual who not only influenced people in his homeland, but all over the world, because of his bold, modern, naturalistic designs.

Jacobsen as a child was always redecorating his Victorian floral wallpaper, as his parents never seemed to want encourage his artistic nature. His father Johan was a safety pin and snap fastener trader, and his mother Pouline was a trained bank clerk. When Arne expressed his wishes to become and artist, his father hinted at him becoming an architect instead, which seemed to be more secure choice. And he began on the road to becoming an architect by first learning the intricacies of design and craftsmanship as a mason like so many other famous architects before him, before he subsequently enrolled as a student of architecture at the Copenhagen Royal Academy of Arts in 1924. A year later, he wins a sliver medal for his amazing chair design at the “Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs” in Paris, where is mesmerized by Le Corbusier’s accomplishments. He is also taken aback by the German architecture of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Walter Gropius, and he graduates successfully from the academy with a gold medal for his design of an art gallery in 1927.

His other notable and remembered works in furniture are the Paris chair, the Cigar, the Grand-prix, the Giraffe, the drop, and the Pot, plus many other works chairs that are works of art. And his list is also long for the number of countless architect projects he was involved in: the Bellevue Theatre (1935-36), Århus City Hall (1939-42), Søllerød Town Hall (1940-42), Rødovre Town Hall (1957), Round House in Sjaellands (1957), Glostrup Town Hall (1958), The Munkegård School in Copenhagen (1955-59), Toms Chocolate Factories in Ballerup (1961), Denmark’s National bank (opened in 1978), Hamburger Elektrizitaetswerke Verwaltungsgebaeude in Hamburg (City Nord), Merton College, Oxford, The Royal Danish Embassy in London, and the SAS Ari Terminal among others.

Arne Jacobsen died on March 24th, 1971 in Copenhagen, and he leaves a very long and filled life doing and living what he loved. At the time of his death he was recognized as a master of the art, and having built and designed symbolic buildings in Germany, Great Britain and of course Denmark. In the end, he was hugely successful individual at everything he attempted, and he had an eye for aesthetics in all manner, which made his work perfect above everything else.