This pair of faculty desks and chairs popped into our inbox this week, and we could not assist however take discover of their simplicity and wonder. We would not be at school anymore, however as summer season slowly involves an finish and lots of begin planning their rentrée, these Arne Jacobsen-designed objects symbolize the right metaphor for resuming routines, beginning contemporary, and discovering new issues to be taught.
Munkegaard College desk and chair by Arne Jacobsen
(Picture credit score: Courtesy Sigmar)
Bought by London gallery Sigmar, the compact desks function a curved, laminated veneer high, lined in a particular inexperienced Formica, and a tubular steel body. The curved design was conceived for performance, because it allowed Jacobsen to create a small shelf underneath the desk. The accompanying chair, fashioned from a single, light-weight piece of moulded plywood, is stackable and widens on the backrest for further consolation throughout an extended day sitting down.
A grasp of midcentury Danish design and structure, Jacobsen is maybe finest recognized for his chairs for Fritz Hansen, Oxford’s St Catherine’s Faculty, and Copenhagen’s Royal Resort, however lesser-known tasks such because the Munkegaard College, from 1957, do an awesome job of demonstrating the architect’s holistic strategy to practical design.
Sigmar London
Munkegaard College/ Desks & Chairs/ Arne Jacobsen, 1956
‘The Munkegaard College opened in 1957, it was a big, single-storey constructing wherein the structure, interiors, furnishings and even outside planting have been thought-about and designed by Jacobsen himself,’ reads a notice from Sigmar, whose founder Nina Hertig coincidentally attended the varsity. ‘The constructing was cut up up into 4 wings, every linked by corridors which fashioned a grid-like system the place every classroom seemed onto its personal personal courtyard. The mixed impact of this made a college for 850 pupils really feel far more cloistered and intimate.’
(Picture credit score: Courtesy Sigmar)
Jacobsen’s considerate designs for the varsity included a loudspeaker product of heat-pressed Plexiglas sheet with 4 embedded audio system (and later turned the start line for a collaboration with Braun), and landscaping surrounding the varsity in a method that allowed the kids to entry the outside from e
4 units of the Munkegaard College desks and chairs can be found from Sigmar, and a notice from the gallery says: ‘The desks and chairs are in excellent classic situation, with minor put on to the Formica desk tops. The plywood chairs and tables have a ravishing, even patina, which can solely richen over time.’
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