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The danish designer Arne Jacobsen has designed this very stylish chair, originally in rattan, as you also can see in our Icons collection, but this version made for our exterior collection is made of materials, so it can be outside all year round.
The chair was originally made of rattan, as you can see in our Icons collection. Now we have also chosen to make it aluminium, so it can withstand the changes of the weather year round.
Arne Jacobsen
“THE ULTRAMODERNIST DESIGNER”
Arne Jacobsen was born on 11 February 1902 in Copenhagen. He first hoped to become a painter, but Jacobsen was admitted to the Architecture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1924 to 1927. He studied under Kay Fisker and Kaj Gottlob, both leading architects and designers.As early as 1925 the talented architect student was awarded an impressive silver medal for the Paris Chair, which was his very first piece of furniture at the world exhibition in Paris.
On that trip, he was struck by the pioneering aesthetic of Le Corbusier’s L’Esprit Nouveau pavilion. He also 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.
In 1929, only two years after his graduation from the Architecture School, the 27-year old Arne Jacobsen won the first prize for an ultramodernistic concept for “The House of the Future” at The Building and Housing Exhibition of the Academic Architects’ Association in Copenhagen. The house was built for the exhibition, and it established Arne Jacobsen as one of the most visionary and progressive Danish architects at the time. At the same time, the house was the first example of actual modernistic architecture in Denmark. It was a spiral-shaped, flat roofed house in glass and concrete, incorporating a private garage, a boathouse and a helicopter pad.
Established in 1942, Sika Design's wicker furniture has been handed down through the generations. It's unique style is ideal for a wide range of contract and residential projects, including; restaurants, cafés, cruise ships and hotels.