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cocktail shakers and ashtrays. Cylindrical shapes were again employed for Vola (1969), an innovative series of mixer taps and accessories for the National Bank of Denmark (1971), the last of Jacobsen’s major domestic building projects. With all of its mechanical parts hidden leaving only the handles and single spout exposed, Vola was an entirely new concept. It led to further plumbing fixtures, including a sanitary ware series for Ideal Standard, which included a toilet, bidet and washbasin that employed the same sculptural design language. However, with Jacobsen’s unexpected death in 1971, the project never came to fruition.


Dickson and Lund-Larsen show that Jacobsen’s innovations showed no signs of slowing in the final decade of his life as his studio became one of Denmark’s largest


As Dickson and Lund-Larsen demonstrate


so well, Jacobsen’s innovations showed no signs of slowing in the final decade of his life as his studio became one of Denmark’s largest, growing from his modest Klampenborg basement to a huge villa in Hellerup. In the year before his death, he worked on Kubeflex, one of three flexible stock house projects designed for the prefab manufacturer N. S. Høm. Tese were essentially modular wooden cubes made of glulam timber, which could be adapted to allow everything from family homes to kindergartens and even larger buildings, all configured from the same elements. Te Kubeflex test houses, which featured Jacobsen’s


Anti-clockwise from left Arne Jacobsen; the Mosquito Chair; Water pattern, created for Textil Lassen; the Ant Chair; the Egg Chair


PHOTO: © DORTE KROGH


PHOTO: © ANKER TIEDEMAN


PHOTO: © ARNE JACOBSEN DESIGN IS


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