Arne Jacobsen was a Danish architect who refused to call himself a designer, yet he created some of the most iconic furniture of the twentieth century. The Egg, The Swan, The Ant, Series 7, and many others have all held up through the test of time. Each of them emerged from architectural commissions where Jacobsen designed everything from the building to the furniture, the cutlery, the textiles, the garden, and even the ashtrays.

This video traces his life from 1920s Copenhagen through wartime exile in Sweden, to his revolutionary plywood chairs of the 1950s, to the SAS Royal Hotel (Copenhagen’s first skyscraper), to St. Catherine’s College at Oxford, and his final monumental work, the Danish National Bank.

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