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Examines and compares the work of architect Arne Jacobsen in architecture and interior design. Compares the effect of differing scales on his work, and seeks common threads in work at different scales. Considers the varying public reception of Modernist architecture and interior design. Jacobsen's influence on furniture design.

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HOTELS CHAIRS AND SPOONS Scale in the Design of Arne Jacobsen Danish architect Arne Jacobsen is not the only thcentury architect to have worked on the very different scale of interiordesign but he is perhaps remarkable in that his impact on interior design and specifically furniture arguably looms larger in the popular cultureand social imagination than his contributions to architecture in theconventional sense of buildings Millions of furniture buyers are familiarwith Danish Modern as a style Jacobsen played the central role indeveloping

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Jacobsen was explicit in rejecting the assumption that buildings areinherently more important than their furnishings simply because they arelarger. Thus, while decorative features might vary widely,usually following the stylistic trends of an era, overall configurationtended to be highly traditional. The bad imitations of Jacobsen's chairs have, for the most part,long since vanished. Jacobsen not only made major contributions to interior design as wellas to building design, he integrated them in a single project, the SASRoyal Hotel in Copenhagen. A common thread thus unites Jacobsen's work, on scales ranging fromspoons to the SAS Royal Hotel and other large buildings. If any two factors can be characterized as basic elements ofModernism, they are simplicity and design from first principles.Simplicity means, primarily, avoiding decorative features extrinsic to thedesign as a whole, but also implies a preference for cleanness of lines inthe basic structure as well. By the 16th century at latest,architecture (that is, building design) had become a recognized professionand art form. What once evoked the future now evokesthe past, and a past too recent to yet be regarded with much nostalgia.Just as cars or clothing fashions become old and out-of-date before theybecome classics, so do buildings and features of interior design. A chair in the Jacobsen style also featured in one of theiconic photographs of the mid-2 th century, a non-revealing nude ofChristine Keeler, a young woman who figured in a British political scandalin 1962. Millions of furniture buyers are familiarwith Danish Modern as a style. Jacobsen played the central role indeveloping this style, and his nationality is commemorated in the term usedto describe it. Otherfeature of most furnishing items are similarly constrained by the size andshape of the human figure, and if a chair is uncomfortable we will avoidsitting in it, no matter how dramatic its appearance. Furniture, due to itscloseness in scale to the human form, is more tightly constrained in itsproportions than buildings are. No date. Craftsmen could and did produceexquisite designs, but with little conscious awareness of their efforts ascreative design. The result is a product thatstill has the capacity to surprise the viewer. The unifyingelement is clean simplicity, rooted in asking the basic question, "what isthis structure - a hotel, or a teaspoon in a guest room - supposed to dofor us?" Jacobsen is concerned not with hotels or teaspoons as they havebeen in the past; only with what we want and need from them. In contrast, furniture is much more tightly constrained, with well-defined maxima as well as minima. Furniture, however, remained almost entirely a craftsmanshipproduct until much more recent times. 1999. (This writer hasunfortunately not been able to give it the ultimate functional test ofsitting in one.) The flatware shown in the movie "2 1" is in some ways a morestartling departure than even the "ant" chair. In its fixed form - a chair can be moved, but except for a foldingchair or a Laz-E-Boy it does not change its shape - furniture differs fromclothing, also a type of structure for human living, but one that isconstantly in motion, and with rare exceptions entirely tensile in itsdesign features. Itrequires a positive act of reconstructive imagination to see and experiencethe SAS Royal Hotel as the hotel-goer of the 196 s may have. An enormous chair might be visuallyimpressive, but it would be as impossible for a typical adult to sit in oneas to sit in a kindergarden chair. Buildings, however, are more durable. Nevertheless,chairs and buildings are both structures of (usually) fixed configuration,designed to meet the daily needs of human life. Public rooms usually have ceilings far higher thanphysically required for the occupants, due to the claustrophobic effects ofbeing in a large space with a low ceiling. Moretypically the difference in linear scale is on the order of a hundred ormore, corresponding to a difference in spatial bulk (and weight, animportant engineering consideration) of a million or more. Yetprecisely because Modernism in interior design never came entirely intoeveryday use, it still has (or perhaps has already regained) an element ofnovelty. Large Terry Flatware. A throne may have a back withexaggerated height, and the whole chair may be set on a dais, but to befunctional at all a king of normal height must be able to sit on it. In addition to Jacobsen's contribution to launching the concept ofDanish Modern, specific items of Jacobsen's interior design have alsoentered the public consciousness. The following discussion will explore therelationships of Jacobsen's work on different scales, its common threads,and the ways that different scales may have influenced one another. As Jacobsen's chairs and flatware have more power to surprise us fiftyyears later than his buildings do, we may ask why this is the case.Modernism is now out of fashion. Thus, for example, Jacobsen's famous "ant" chair simply does not lookvery much like our mental image of a chair. In fact, theguest at the SAS Royal Hotel is offered the functional equivalent of abalcony view, in a city whose climate would generally preclude sitting onan open balcony, and where the effect could thus never have been achievedwith traditional materials or design conceptions. (It is now the Radisson SAS Hotel; the "SAS" inthe name refers to the Scandinavian airline.) Built in 1959, all of itselements, the building and its furnishings, were conceived and executed byJacobsen as a unified exercise in providing a living environment for itsguests. 4 th Anniversary: Arne Jacobsen SAS Royal Hotel. In scale theyare enormously different; the linear scale can scarcely be less than afactor of ten for the largest furnishings in the smallest building. That is, while no door intended for general use canbe five feet high, architects may choose to have doors 2 feet high if thatseems appropriate to their design conception (e.g., for entry doors to somepublic buildings). Arne Jacobsen 1 : Quotes, 1999. Thus, bad imitations ofJacobsen and other Modernist architects are still all around us, and wellbe for decades to come, before the gradual evolution of cityscapessupplants most of them with bad imitations of more recent styles. Its most striking featureis left-handed and right-handed spoons. 2 2 2 723393887 1374848633.html>Kiser, Kirsten, ed. Watkin, David.

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