Danish Furniture Designers - A. J. Iversen, Aksel Bender Madsen, Arne Jacobsen, Arne Vodder, Bernt Petersen, Bodil Kjaer, Borge Mogensen, Cecilie M (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: A. J. Iversen, Aksel Bender Madsen, Arne Jacobsen, Arne Vodder, Bernt Petersen, Bodil Kjaer, Borge Mogensen, Cecilie Manz, Edvard Kindt-Larsen, Ejner Larsen, Finn Juhl, Flemming Lassen, Foersom and Hiort-Lorenzen, Frits Henningsen, Gesa Hansen, Grete Jalk, Hans Olsen (furniture designer), Hans Wegner, Jacob Jensen, Jacob Kjaer, Joseph Christian Lillie, Jorgen Gammelgaard, Jorgen Kastholm, Kaare Klint, Kaj Gottlob, Kasper Salto, Kurt Ostervig, List of Danish furniture designers, Louise Campbell, Mogens Koch, Mogens Lassen, Nanna Ditzel, Ole Wanscher, Orla Molgaard-Nielsen, Peder Moos, Peter Hvidt, Piet Hein (Denmark), Poul Henningsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Poul Volther, Preben Fabricius, Rigmor Andersen, Verner Panton, Vilhelm Lauritzen. Excerpt: Arne Emil Jacobsen (11 February 1902 - 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs. Arne Jacobsen was born on 11 February 1902 in Copenhagen to upper-middle-class Jewish parents. He first hoped to become a painter but was dissuaded by his father who encouraged him to opt instead for the more secure domain of architecture. After a spell as an apprentice mason, Jacobsen was admitted to the Architecture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where from 1924 to 1927 he studied under Kay Fisker and Kaj Gottlob, both leading architects and designers. Still a student, in 1925 Jacobsen participated in the Paris Art Deco fair, Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, where he won a silver medal for a chair design. On that trip, he was struck by the pioneering aesthetic of Le Corbusier's L'Esprit Nouveau pavilion. Before leaving the Academy, Jacobsen also travelled to Germany, where