![]() While the chair’s silhouette was unusual for the time, so too were its three legs. ![]() Assisted by his then-apprentice Verner Panton, who would apply what he learned at Jacobsen’s practice to his own Cone chair and more, Jacobsen applied the Eameses’ groundbreaking ideas to the construction of his two-piece Ant chair - a seat and backrest made from a single piece of molded plywood supported by tubular metal legs. Originally called the Model 3100 and designed for the cafeteria of Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, the spare Ant chair ( Myren in Danish) was inspired by plywood furniture crafted by American designers Charles and Ray Eames. Over time, this attention to detail evolved into a pursuit of perfect proportions, a quality that is most prominent in his organic furniture pieces like the Ant chair. Soon after graduating from the School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Jacobsen set up his own practice, through which he could further his ideal of “total design.” This meant that for the architecture projects he undertook - such as the revered SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen - he was involved in the design of everything down to the last detail: from the exterior structure to the door handles to the carpets. ![]() His Ant chair is part of his legacy of designing avant-garde, unusual and revolutionary chairs like the Egg, the Swan and the Drop.Īs a child, Jacobsen covered the Victorian wallpaper in his bedroom with white paint, the beginning of a lifetime of pioneering new ideas in design and architecture. ![]() But Arne Jacobsen (1902–71), the modernist Danish designer and architect, was always ahead of his time. For almost anybody else in the early 1950s, designing a three-legged chair inspired by the shape of an ant with its head raised would be unthinkable. ![]()
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