MØBLER TEGNET AF PROFESSOR ARNE JACOBSEN FOR FRITZ HANSENS EFT
Fritz Hansens
[Fritz Hansens EFT. A/S]: MØBLER TEGNET AF PROFESSOR ARNE JACOBSEN FOR FRITZ HANSENS EFT. A/S. Allerød, Denmark: Fritz Hansens EFT. A/S, 1960. First edition. Text in Danish. A very good staple-bound booklet with thick printed Kraft paper wrappers and minor shelf wear including an age-toned spine, minor creasing and a dog-eared corner. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
10.25 x 10.25 staple-bound booklet with 20 pages and 9 black-and-white illustrations, 3 color illustrations and 27 black-and-white thumbnail illustrations of Jacobsen's chairs and tables— includes Ant Chairs, Egg Lounge Chairs, Dining Table 3600, Pot Chairs, Grand Prix Chairs, and Series 3300 Chairs as wells as coffee and dining tables
From Fritz Hansen's website: The cooperation between Arne Jacobsen and Fritz Hansen dates back to 1934. But it was in 1952 the break-through came with the Ant. It was succeeded by the Series 7 in 1955. This propelled his and Fritz Hansen's names into furniture history. Arne Jacobsen was very productive both as an architect and as a designer. At the end of the 50s Arne Jacobsen designed the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, and for that project the Egg, the Swan, the Swan sofa and Series 3300. Arne Jacobsen was and is an admired and outstanding designer. While the significance of Arne Jacobsen's buildings was less appreciated, his furniture and other design work have become national and international heritage.
"The fundamental factor is proportion. Proportion is precisely what makes the old Greek temples beautiful . . . And when we look at some of the most admired buildings of the Renaissance or the Baroque, we notice that they are all well-proportioned. That is the essential thing." –Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) began training as a mason before studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen where he won a silver medal for a chair that was then exhibited at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Art Decoratifs in Paris. Influenced by Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Jacobsen embraced a functionalist approach from the outset. He was among the first to introduce modernist ideas to Denmark and create industrial furniture that built upon on its craft-based design heritage.
First among Jacobsen's important architectural commissions was the Bellavista housing project, Copenhagen (1930-1934). Best known and most fully integrated works, are the SAS Air Terminal and the Royal Hotel Copenhagen for which Jacobsen designed every detail from sculptural furnishings such as his elegant Swan and Egg chairs (1957-1958) to textiles, lighting, ashtrays and cutlery.
During the 1960's, Jacobsen's most important work was a unified architectural and interior design scheme for St. Catherine's College, Oxford, which, like his earlier work for the Royal Hotel, involved the design of site-specific furniture. Jacobsen's work remains appealing and fresh today, combining free-form sculptural shapes with the traditional attributes of Scandinavian design, material and structural integrity.