Tillykke med Fødselsdagen, Jacob!
Sunday, 29th April, 2012Happy Birthday Jacob Jensen… 86 years old today!
Born on 29 April 1926 in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Jacob Jensen became one of Denmark’s leading designers. Starting his professional career for Bernadotte and Bjørn, the first industrial design drawing office in Denmark (1954–1959), his professional relationship with Bang & Olufsen began a few years’ later in 1965 and continued right up to 1991 where he functioned as designer and strategy advisor. Jensen is credited with developing the B&O form language which is still used today, with many of his designs finding homes in permanent design collections in museums across the world including New York’s MoMA.
