Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen Hardcover – March 14, 2023

I purchased the first edition of Room 606 in 2003. Twenty years later, it is well-worn and holds a prominent position on my bookshelf. The new edition (2023) has the same title and overall structure but is an entirely new book. The author has painstakingly coordinated stunning new photographs with original furniture, rescanned historical photographs from source material, and substantially rewritten the book with new insights. If you love the original Room 606, SAS Royal Hotel, Arne Jacobsen, and Danish Modernism, you should absolutely pick up this new edition.While still in use, the SAS Royal Hotel is showing its age and will require significant rehabilitation in the coming years. Michael Sheridan, author of Room 606, has become a leading voice in raising public awareness about the cultural significance of this building and in advocating for a historical designation that would ensure the building is protected and maintained with the care and attention to detail it deserves.

This is an excellently written and beautifully illustrated book that sits at a clear intersection between architecture and aesthetic appreciation. It is a very straightforward book: the language is neither florid nor overly technical. In its own way, it is a literary time capsule capturing what has mostly been lost, Jacobsen's inventive creation of every facet of the SAS Royal Hotel. In some ways it is a difficult book to read, because it leaves one amazed that the Danes did not preserve Jacobsen's amazing work and designs. And it leaves one longing for this era of Modernism at its very best.

This is an amazing book on a great designer/architect. There are other OOP books on Jacobsen but this one describes every detail of this great project. It also describes other related buildings and objects so that you can get a good overview of his work. A must have for any design fan.

A thorough and complete history of the SAS hotel and Arne Jacobsen. Being a huge Arne Jacobsen fan I love this book

One of the finest design books I own!

The book not only examines the complete work that was Jacobsen's SAS Hotel but only delves into his previous projects. Included within this publication is a wealth of photography and extensive research into the designer's Gesamkunstwerk. Highly recommended.

The Dalai Lama was staying at the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel when I was in Copenhagen, a month ago, but happily Room 606 was unoccupied and I was able to see this one surviving fragment of Arne Jacobsen's gesamtkunstwerk. Denmark's leading architect designed this hotel-terminal in 1960 as the flagship of SAS, a major patron of progressive design, when air travel was still a civilized experience for a fortunate few. Fabrics, lighting, and furniture-most famously the Egg, Swan, and Drop chairs-even the stainless steel flatware and door handles were custom designed by Jacobsen for the hotel. Everything but the one room (which rents for about $575 a night) and the spiral stair in the lobby has now been changed. Sheridan, a New York architect, employs a wealth of period photos and sketches to recreate every facet of the original and places it in the context of Jacobsen's earlier work. The result is a gem of lucid scholarship. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)