ARNE JACOBSEN
Arne Jacobsen (1902 - 71) was a prolific and versatile architect and designer. He apprenticed as a bricklayer at Denmark's School of Applied Arts from 1917 -1924. From 1924-27, studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and in 1930, after working for Paul Holsoe started his own practice. He was neither an intellectual nor an ideologue and had no real design philosophy. He once said, "if I have a philosophy it must be to sit at my drawing board". In the 1930s , he abandoned neo-Classicism and embraced International Modernism, as a style, not a philosophy.
He was incredibly active, gifted in landscape design, textiles and industrial
design. He designed more than 100 buildings: houses, schools, city halls
and corporate headquarters, many of which are still studied in architecture
schools. He won the grand prize at both the Biennal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
(1953) and the Milan XI Triennale of 1957 and was a leading designer of
mass produced furnishings, using new industrial materials and international
marketing.
He is most famous for his chairs, the "Egg" and "Swan", both designed
for the SAS Hotel in Copenhagen. Influenced by Charles and Ray Eames and
Alvar Aalto, he also created designs such as the "Ant" chair
using one piece of molded plywood for both seat and back. Starting in
the 1950s he also designed many household items such as modern "AJ" flatware
for A. Michelson, and lamps for Louis Poulsen and Company. The AJ flatware
was not successfully used there but did develop an international commercial
market during the 1960s. First manufactured by the Danish silversmith
A. Michelsen, Copenhagen, Jeweller to the Crown, it was the firm's first
tableware fabricated in the modern medium of stainless steel. This design
was an exercise in utter simplicity, from the tiny coffee spoon to the
long salad servers, they all share the same flat, rudimentary handles
which continue uninterrupted to the end of the utensils. Slight depressions
form the bowls of the spoons, short prongs denote the forks and flat uniform
blades signify the knives. The flatware was eventually manufactured and
distributed by Georg Jensen.
The
Royal Hotel 1956-61, situated in Copenhagen, is one of Arne Jacobsen«s
masterpieces. He designed both the building and the furniture, lamps,
fabrics, flatware, glasses, and door handles. As significant counterpoints
to the stiffly upright, monumental building his easy chairs, the "Swan"
and the "Egg", stand out as organic sculptures.
From jetsetmodern.com, serial-design.com and ANTIQUES an article by Wendy
Moonan in The New York Times, February 22, 2001
Stainless
Flatware
Matte Finish
Designed by Arne Jacobsen Manufactured by Georg Jensen
Mint
Condition
Year: designed in 1960s
Inv. #: shj
- SERVICE
FOR 12
(151 pieces)
12 place settings with
12 pieces in each place setting,
6 serving pieces,
1 left hand bullion spoon
(see picture at right)
Click HERE to see a larger picture. (Image is very large: 856 x 527)
Price $3825
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