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Arne Jacobsen

Born: February 11, 1902

Died: March 24, 1971

Nationality: Danish

Occupation: Architect

Biography: Arne Emil Jacobsen 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.

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Arne Jacobsen

“Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.”

- Arne Jacobsen

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Arne Jacobsen

“And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.”

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Arne Jacobsen

“Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.”

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“Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.”

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“But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.”

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“Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.”

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“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.”

- Arne Jacobsen

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“I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.”

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“I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.”

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“I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.”

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“I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.”

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“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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