Arne Jacobsen (February 11, 1902 – March 24, 1971) was a Danish architect and designer.

Among his architectural accomplishment come St Catherine's College, Oxford, work at Merton College, Oxford, the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, Copenhagen, the Danish National Bank building in Copenhagen, as well as a number of town halls and other buildings in his native Denmark. Jacobsen has created the total of extremely original chairs & more piece of furniture. He has received many international distinctions & ribbon.

Jacobsen is, all the same, possibly better known for the Model 3107 chair of 1955, known also when a "Number 7 Chair"; it sold assibilate Five million copies, & is already firmly established as a design classic. A Total 7 chair is perchance better known for existence a prop utilized to hide Christine Keeler's nakedness in Lewis Morley's [http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/past_exhns/seeing/modern_icon/ iconic portrait] of 1963. Morley good happened to apply the chair that he got in the studio, which turns intent on develop been the copy of Jacobsen's project. Since so, Total 7 chairs keep close at hand been utilized for numbers of similar portraits imitating a pose.

His more seeable contribution to popular culture in the media is his [http://www.2001exhibit.org/arts/img/lrg_terry_flatware2.jpg flatware design], by using correct- & left-handed spoons in the moving picture 2001: A Space Odyssey, picked for the film because of its "futuristic" project.

St Catherine's College, Oxford, his interpretation of a quadrangle-based college, has all the requisite elements: a quad centered on a lawn (a circle with one or two Cedar of Lebanon trees), student rooms (laid out in two long rows), a garden, a chapel, a dining hall and SCR, Master's Lodgings, and a "feature" (in this case, a lily pond). His creativeness did non prevent there, notwithstanding. a fastidious perfectionist, he likewise designed a original flatware, a lot of a article of furniture in a rooms, a locks & keys, the door handgrip, the sinks, the taps, & all the lights. Though simply stairway One & Two st& a original & completed project (& his entire project originally was extra extensive, sustaining a 3-story layout), the metallic shower stalls and bathrooms come intact. These are likewise notable that a original paving is near perfectly parallel & perpendicular to the buildings despite Thirty years of put on.