Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIAwas 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...
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth11 February 1902
Arne Jacobsen quotes about
years house years-ago
None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago
art house tasks
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
block air greek
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
philosophy sitting favourite
I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.
tasks artistic solutions
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
building architect used
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
quality gone use
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
travel art fun
When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
people care chairs
People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
mars done environment
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
architecture gothic-architecture
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
furniture enough danish
Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment
relaxation today modern
That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
people hell building
Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.