Rothenborg House
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The Rothenborg House is a private home in Klampenborg
, just north of Copenhagen
, designed by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen
in 1930.
The house was built for the lawyer Max Rothenborg. His wife was thrilled with the building and participated enthusiatically in its furnishings. Like many of Jacobsen's works, it was planned as a complete work of art, attention being given not just to the building itself but to its interior, including furniture and fittings. The press considered it a breakthrough for Jacobsen, comparing him with Le Corbusier
. Some, however, were not ready to accept it as a genuinely modernistic
house as it was made of brick rather than reinforced concrete and was based on a traditionally English approach. Nevertheless the house still has a modern look with its white facade, its iron-framed windows and its cubic forms including the white walls of its sun terrace.
Unfortunately the residence has undergone a number of conversions over the years, significantly detracting from its original design.
Klampenborg
Klampenborg is a northern suburb to Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located in Gentofte Municipality, directly on Øresund, between Taarbæk and Skovshoved. Like other neighbourhoods along the Øresund coast, Klampenborg is an affluent area with many large houses....
, just north of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, designed by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Emil Jacobsen, usually known as Arne Jacobsen, was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for contributing so much to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs.-Early life and education:Arne Jacobsen was born...
in 1930.
The house was built for the lawyer Max Rothenborg. His wife was thrilled with the building and participated enthusiatically in its furnishings. Like many of Jacobsen's works, it was planned as a complete work of art, attention being given not just to the building itself but to its interior, including furniture and fittings. The press considered it a breakthrough for Jacobsen, comparing him with Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
. Some, however, were not ready to accept it as a genuinely modernistic
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
house as it was made of brick rather than reinforced concrete and was based on a traditionally English approach. Nevertheless the house still has a modern look with its white facade, its iron-framed windows and its cubic forms including the white walls of its sun terrace.
Unfortunately the residence has undergone a number of conversions over the years, significantly detracting from its original design.
Literature
- Thau, Carsten; Vindum, Kjeld: Arne Jacobsen, 2008, Copenhagen, Arkitektens forlag, 560 p. ISBN 9788774072300
External links
- Arne Jacobsen i Gentofte, Danish-language account of Jacobsen's works in Gentofte Municipality with many photographs