national bank of denmark, copenhagen, 1961-1978. architect: arne jacobsen, 1901-1971. final stages completed by architects dissing+weitling.

corner detail with swan chairs.

materials: norwegian porsgrunn marble, concrete, brass, tinted and clear glass.

with the introduction of tinted glass along with the clear glass, jacobsen's late modernist palette of surfaces came closer to a kind of black and white version of the early works of mies van der rohe, whose projects jacobsen was introduced to in berlin in the 1920's.

office interiors are entirely lined in pear wood and furnished with jacobsen's sculptural chairs for an almost complete contrast to the cool of the exterior. you can just glimpse two swan chairs behind the dark glass.