Sas Hotel Interior. Room 606 features original jacobsen furniture and fittings. Opened in 1960 the hotel is one of the best examples of gesamtkunstwerk the concept of a complete artwork.
19 out 2017 explore a pasta sas hotel room 606 1956 60 arne jacobsen de joaquim teixeira no pinterest. Arcspace the interior rooms look out over the atrium offering ocean views of the aquadom the exterior rooms overlook the berliner dom the museum island the red town hall or alexanderplatz with the 365 meter high tv and radio tower. Beyond this slick aviation milestone however the sas royal now the radisson collection royal hotel stands out as the world s first design hotel a term that today is bandied about to describe.
The novel idea for the hotel was that it doubled as an airport terminal the first such solution in europe with a shuttle service taking 1960s true travelers from the sas royal hotel s cocktail lounge to kastrup airport in just 20 minutes.
Kastrup airport opened in 1925 and the hotel terminal with buses taking passengers to and from the airport must have been seen as both incredibly sophisticated and international in the 1950s but also as crucial for the attempts to promote danish trade industry and design as part of a post war programme for recovery with the sas. 19 out 2017 explore a pasta sas hotel room 606 1956 60 arne jacobsen de joaquim teixeira no pinterest. The architect himself wasn t pleased with everything though. Following the withdrawal of sas from the partnership on.
