Bellevue lamp&Tradition

Arne Jacobsen, 1929 

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Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929

Arne Jacobsen designed the Bellevue lamp early in his career, in the year of the Great Depression of 1929, at a time when everyone felt the need for a new environment and a new way of living. It was designed for the House of the Future, a pavilion that he designed in partnership with his friend Flemming Lassen for an exhibition in Copenhagen, and which has been preserved like the Barcelona pavilion by Mies Van Der Rohe and the Weissenhof Siedlung by Van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

‍ The House of the Future was shaped like a circle cut by straight lines and sharp angles. The Bellevue lamp echoes this duality, with its roundness and taut lines. An early work, it already reveals the assertive style of its creator.  

Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929

Bellevue AJ9 Wall Lamp

Dimensions D28 x W16,5 cm

Light source E14

Bellevue AJ9 Wall Lamp

Black / Brass

Bellevue AJ11 Table lamp

Materials painted steel and brass - tubular flexible gooseneck - 2m textile thread

Lampshade ø19,5 cm Base Ø9,5 cm 

Light source 1 x E14 

Bellevue AJ11 Table lamp

Black / Brass – With Switch

Bellevue AJ7 Floor lamp

Dimensions W27,3 x D60 x H130 cm; lampshade Ø19,5 cm; base Ø 27,3 cm. 2-metre textile thread.

Materials Satin-finish polished brass or satin-finish polished brass with painted aluminium and steel, cast-iron base

Light source 1 x E27

Bellevue AJ7 Floor lamp
Bellevue AJ7 Floor lamp
Bellevue AJ7 Floor lamp

Black / Brass

White / Bronze

Grey / Bronze

Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929
Bellevue Lamp  &Tradition  Arne Jacobsen, 1929

Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen is born on February 11, 1902 in Copenhagen. His father, Johan Jacobsen, is a wholesale trader in safety pins and snap fasteners. His mother, Pouline Jacobsen, a bank clerk, paints floral motifs in her spare time. The family lived in a typical Victorian style home. As a contrast to his parents’ overly decorated taste, Arne paints his room in white.

Background & school relations

He met the Lassen brothers at Nærum Boarding School: later, Flemming Lassen was to become his partner in a series of architectural projects. Arne Jacobsen is a restless pupil, always up to pranks, with a self-deprecating humour. Already as a child, he showed an extraordinary talent for drawing and depicting nature through scrupulous studies. He wants to be painter, but his father felt that architect was a more sensible choice.

The Pleasant and the necessary trips abroad
Jacobsen’s travelling begin already in his twenties, when he went to sea to New York. Then followed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Germany and a series of study and drawing excursions to Italy. Jacobsen produced some of his finest watercolours during this period, capturing atmospheres and shapes accurately and carefully. From the beginning of his career, Jacobsen turned his gaze abroad, without abandoning Danish traditions.

Arne Jacobsen behind the design
Jacobsen production reflects his personality: an insistent, perfectionist modernist, to whom no detail was trivial, although the main picture was basically black/white and unambiguous. On the other hand, the nature-loving botanist and jovial family man: like him, his work is precise and warm, Danish and universal, modern and timeless.