ARNE JACOBSEN & SAS HOTEL

Arne Jacbson in 1959

ARNE JACOBSEN (1902-1971) was one of Denmark's most influential 20th century 

architects and designers. Both his buildings and products, like his Swan and Egg Chairs, 

combine modernist ideals with a Nordic love of naturalism.

SAS Hotel 1956-61, Copenhagen

1956-61 Designs the hotel and two upholstered chairs - the Egg and Swan - for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen as well as the stainless steel cutlery later chosen by Stanley Kubrick as a prop in 2001: A Space Odyssey...read more in

Egg Chair

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Nowadays the restored “Royal Suite 606″ is the only room in the hotel where everything from doorhandles to furniture and curtains is designed by Jacobsen.

SAS Hotel