Coffee Table by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen

The Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Kay Fisker and Kaj Gottlob. For Fritz Hansen he designed the Ant Chair (1952), the Series 7 Chair (1955), the Egg Chair and the Swan Chair (both 1958, originally for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen). The AJ lamp for Louis Poulsen (1957) and the tap series for Vola (1968) are also his. His furniture is characterised by organic, curved forms of moulded plywood and foam on slender steel frames. Jacobsen is regarded as one of the most influential representatives of Danish modernism.