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SAS Royal Hotel

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  • architect

    Arne Jacobsen

  • location

    Copenhagen, Denmark

  • year

    1960

  • amenities

    Hotel rooms
    Bar
    Restaurant
    Gym
    Meeting rooms

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The world's first
design hotel

In July 1960 the SAS Royal Hotel opened in Copenhagen as the world’s first design hotel. Now known as the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, it was the embodiment of Arne Jacobsen’s whole-picture approach to architecture and design.

Jacobsen received the brief in 1955 from Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) to build the first hotel of its kind and set Copenhagen up as the Nordic gateway for the new tourists travelling from America. The hotel was to act as a terminal in the city centre, with guests whisked direct from its cocktail lounge to Kastrup Airport in a mere 20 minutes.

Today, only room 606 remains as it stood in 1960.

Sas Royal Square1
Aj Vignet

The original pieces from 1961 still remain in place.

Sas Royal Square2

The glassy horizontal box is a tower of translucence that reflects and blends into the sky.

Sas Royal Square3

The glassy horizontal box, topped with an 18-storey vertical one, was a tower of translucence that reflected and blended into the sky around it, somehow merging into its low-rise city home.

Jacobsen designed everything within the hotel’s 22 floors – his hand was seen in furniture, carpets, curtains, wine glasses, cutlery, signage and, of course, the timeless lever handles still made by d line. Today, only room 606 remains as it stood in 1960, and it has fully functioned as a guest room until recently.

The AJ lever handle endures too. The original pieces still remains in place in room 606 as well as in several of the bathrooms across the hotel.

Sas Slide1
Sas Slide2
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Lever handle AJ111, large

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Lever handle AJ97, small

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