Danish furniture designers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Chapters: A. J. Iversen, Aksel Bender Madsen, Arne Jacobsen, Arne Vodder, Bernt Petersen, Bodil Kjær, Borge Mogensen, Cecilie Manz, Edvard Kindt-Larsen, Ejner Larsen, Finn Juhl, Flemming Lassen, Foersom and Hiort-Lorenzen, Frits Henningsen, Gesa Hansen, Grete Jalk, Hans Olsen (furniture designer), Hans Wegner, Jacob Jensen, Jacob Kjær, Joseph Christian Lillie, Jørgen Gammelgaard, Jørgen Kastholm, Kaare Klint, Kaj Gottlob, Kasper Salto, Kurt Østervig, List of Danish furniture designers, Louise Campbell, Mogens Koch, Mogens Lassen, Nanna Ditzel, Ole Wanscher, Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen, Peder Moos, Peter Hvidt, Piet Hein (Denmark), Poul Henningsen, Poul Kjærholm, Poul Volther, Preben Fabricius, Rigmor Andersen, Verner Panton, Vilhelm Lauritzen. Excerpt: Arne Emil Jacobsen (11 February 1902 - 24 March 1971) was 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. Arne Jacobsen was born on 11 February 1902 in Copenhagen to upper-middle-class Jewish parents. He first hoped to become a painter but was dissuaded by his father who encouraged him to opt instead for the more secure domain of architecture. After a spell as an apprentice mason, Jacobsen was admitted to the Architecture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where from 1924 to 1927 he studied under Kay Fisker and Kaj Gottlob, both leading architects and designers. Still a student, in 1925 Jacobsen participated in the Paris Art Deco fair, Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, where he won a silver medal for a chair design. On that trip, he was struck by the pioneering aesthetic of Le Corbusier's L'Esprit Nouveau pavilion. Before leaving the Academy, Jacobsen also travelled to Germany, where he became acquainted with the rationalist architecture of Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. Their work influenced his early designs including his graduation project, an art gallery, which won him a gold medal. After completing architecture school, he first worked at city architect Poul Holsøe's architectural practice. In 1929, in collaboration with Flemming Lassen, he won a Danish Architect's Association competition for designing the "House of the Future" which was built full scale at the subsequent exhibition in Copenhagen's Forum. It was a spiral-shaped, flat-roofed house in glass and concrete, incorporating a private garage, a boathouse and a helicopter pad. Other striking features were windows that rolled down like car windows, a conveyor tube for the mail and a kitchen stocked with ready-made meals. A Dodge Cabriolet Coupé was parked in the garage, there was a Chris Craft in the boathouse