Jaime Hayon: Room 506

Fritz Hansen celebrates the relaunch of the Drop chair asking Jaime Hayon to create a design for Room 506 to match Arne Jacobsen’s original design, which is preserved in Room 606.

Together with the SAS Royal Hotel (now Radisson Blu Royal Hotel), Fritz Hansen asked the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon to create a total design for Room 506 to match Arne Jacobsen’s original design, which is preserved in Room 606.

Room 506 celebrates the relaunch of the Drop chair, which was created 50 years ago for the hotel, along with new designs by Jaime Hayon.

Room 506 is created with great respect for Arne Jacobsen’s original design from 1958. It is different from Room 606, but the kinship is unmistakable. Jaime Hayon is clearly inspired by the classic Arne Jacobsen palette of subtle colours with a few well-placed bright accents. And like Arne Jacobsen, Jaime Hayon has created a total design for the room, including furniture, works of art, bedspreads, lamps, etc.

Another strong link between Room 506 and 606 is the Drop chair, which has been a sleeping beauty for the past 50 years. Although the Drop chair was originally used both in the cocktail bar and in all the rooms, today it is only found in Rooms 606 and 506. The Drop was originally produced along with the Swan and the Egg, but it was created exclusively for the hotel and was never put into standard production. This year it is back in production and available to the public for the first time.