Mid-century lighting by Arne Jacobsen (Denmark)

The Danish architect Arne Jacobsen (1902-71) was born in Copenhagen. As a child he showed an extraordinary talent for drawing and depicting nature. He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture in Copenhagen.

Jacobsen's designs included architecture, furniture, textiles, wallpaper and silverware. He mastered the range of design from large, complex building projects to a teaspoon in a set of cutlery.

His most famous designs became ‘The Ant’, ‘Series 7’, ‘The Egg and The Swan’, and the tableware ‘Cylinda-Line’.

Jacobsen’s architecture includes a considerable number of epoch-making buildings in Denmark, Germany and Great Britain.

‘The Ant’ chair, designed in 1952 for use in the canteen of the Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk, became the starting point of his world fame as a furniture designer and became the first of a number of lightweight chairs with the seat more... and back in one piece of moulded wood.

Model ‘3107’ from 1955 is often merely called ‘The Number Seven Chair’. It was launched in beech, black and white. ‘3107’ is one of the most important success stories in Danish furniture history, and over 5 million originals have been manufactured, as well as countless copies.

'The Egg' is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for the lobby and reception area of the Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark, which he also designed.

His simple, elegant and functional designs have a remarkable, timeless appeal and have become international design classics. less...