CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/8/2023

Midcentury Modern bliss in 'Room 606'

Featured spreads are from Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen, Strandberg Publishing’s gorgeous updated edition of the cult classic architecture monograph exploring in fascinating detail a single room of what is now the Royal Hotel Copenhagen. An architectural landmark, Room 606 was originally part of Jacobsen’s 1960 masterwork, SAS House luxury hotel and air terminal. “The SAS House was the central work of Jacobsen’s career—a comprehensive commission that allowed him to design every part of the building and interiors, from chairs, lamps, textiles and tableware to the hotel logo and the lettering above the entrance,” author and architect Michael Sheridan writes. “While the building that Jacobsen completed in 1960 no longer truly exists, Room 606 encapsulates the underlying principles and formal ideas of the SAS House, so that it provides a lens for studying Jacobsen’s vanished masterwork. In doing so, we gain insight into his vast and varied production, and a deeper understanding of his unique approach to modern architecture and design.”