"ARNE JACOBSEN - ARCHITECT & DESIGNER" par Poul Erik TØJNER & Kjeld VINDUM. Editions Danish Design Centre, København. 1999. Imprimé au Danemark. Grand in-8, format oblong, toilée noire sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs. 140 pages. Textes bilingues Danois / Anglais, illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc et couleurs, in-texte et hors texte, de travaux d'Arne Jacobsen.

 

"This book follows Arne Jacobsen from the early years. It starts with a dream about The House of the Future and about new ways of living and working. It ends nearly two generations later with major buildings in Denmark, Germany and England where buildings, gardening, furnishing and lighting, create a feeling of wholeness and identity so rare in today's world. Arne Jacobsen was one of the few creators who inscribed his name in both the history of architecture and design. Yet, even if his works in both fields express the same ideas, the roads which led to them differ. Arne Jacobsen's buildings are described in his drawings down to the most minute detail. This is documented in the thousands of drawings in the collections at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. ln stark contrast to this, the drawings of his industrial designs are mostly those which the manufacturers did themselves after the product had been developed - in a process which always took place in close cooperation with model makers, craftsmen and technicians. Arne Jacobsen himself provided, at best, a quick sketch made on a tiny piece of paper. The book gives an insight into both of these processes through interviews with industrialists, technicians, model makers and clients for the big building projects, as well as with architects and designers who worked for Arne Jacobsen…"

 

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