No-one was more responsible for the international prestige of ‘Danish Modern’ than Arne Jacobsen. And in his Egg Chair Jacobsen created one of the most enduring symbols of the 20th century. ...
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No-one was more responsible for the international prestige of ‘Danish Modern’ than Arne Jacobsen. And in his Egg Chair Jacobsen created one of the most enduring symbols of the 20th century. The chair and foot stool were designed in 1958 for the SAS Royal Hotel, Copenhagen’s first skyscraper, which its critics described as a ‘glass cigarbox’. With the hotel, Jacobsen attempted a modernist total-work-of-art: he designed the whole venture from the cutlery to the tower... and everything in between, including the Swan and Egg chairs. Thought to have been inspired, in part, by Eero Saarinen’s ‘Womb Chair’, its organic form contrasts tellingly with the uncompromising geometry of the building itself. Upholstered in a stylish leather that develops a patina over time, the chair is manufactured by Fritz Hansen with a unique ID number engraved on the underside.
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