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Arne Jacobsen was born on Copenhagen in 1902 and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in architecture in 1927. Arne Jacobsen was very productive both as an architect and as a designer. At the end of the 50s Arne Jacobsen designed the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, and for the interior, the Egg and Swan Chair together with the Swan Sofa and Series 3300 with Fritz Hansen. This propelled the Arne Jacobsen name into furniture history.
Arne Jacobsen was and is an admired and outstanding designer. While the significance of Arne Jacobsen's buildings was less appreciated (St Catherine's College, Oxford (1963 - for which he also designed the Oxford Chair) Mainz Town Hall in Germany(1973), his furniture and other design work have become national and international heritage.
He died in Copenhagen in 1971.