Arne Jacobsen was one of the most accomplished Danish designers and architects of the 20th century. His elegant style embraced the functionality and clean lines of modernism with organic, sensuous forms. Born in Copenhagen in 1902, he studied architecture and after graduating together with Erik Moller won the architectural competition to design the Aarhus City Hall, working together with designer Hans J Wegner. Between 1956 and 1960, he works on the SAS Royal Hotel (now Radisson Blu Royal Hotel) in Copenhagen, a building that is conceived as a total work of art. The three architects designed every detail, from the Egg Chair and the Swan Chair, which owe their iconic status to their seductive, organic forms, to the seating in the building. In 1956 he became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. There were many pioneering buildings of Scandinavian modernism designed by Jacobsen, and many pieces of furniture he designed, always conceived with a view to producing objects in an industrial way. His most famous designs are undoubtedly the chairs, including Ant's 1952 Series 7, which were a real commercial success.