Arne Jacobsen, Reality, and a Stuffed Technicolor Frog
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“What do you mean ‘I get to decide’?” asked squirrel.
“While much in life is beyond control,” replied owl, “how you respond is not.”
Thoughts while making
I’m not sure why I thought drawing on my bedroom wall was a good idea.
But I was 10 and I had markers.
Sometimes ideas just are.
I don’t remember what I drew.
But I can see the colors:
Light blue, orange, yellow, and black.
And I remember the drawing was small enough to be hidden behind a row of stuffed animals.
A monkey, a technicolor frog, and a dog with no nose.
When I was a kid, I loved to draw. And color.
Yet somewhere along the line, I got the message that, unless I could make my picture look like "reality," I couldn’t really draw. And so I largely stopped.
When he was a kid, it’s said that famed Danish designer, Arne Jacobsen, painted over the Victorian wallpaper in his bedroom.
His color of choice? White.
From that blank canvas, Jacobsen went on to dream up some of the most iconic designs of the twentieth century.
Throughout his career, he demonstrated that, if you don’t see it in the world around you, you can create it yourself.
The love. The beauty. The vision.
And that’s why Jacobsen is the inspiration behind my newly resurrected design.
The palette of this mobile was informed by four of Jacobsen’s most iconic furniture designs: the opium reds and orange pops from his Series 7 Chair (1955), the tar black from his iconic Egg Chair (1958), the burnt yellow leather of his Banquette Swan (1957), and the robin blues of The Swan (1957).
@mentalfloss recently asked: “What was your favorite thing to do as a 10-year-old—and are you still doing it today?”
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