SOLD OUT Visit Arne Jacobsen's summer house

Visit Arne Jacobsen's private summer house by the bay of Sejerø and get close to the nature that inspired him. In collaboration with Realdania Byg & Byg Klubben.

On the edge of a pine forest by Sejerø Bay, a heather-covered dune rises three meters high. Here is Arne Jacobsen's summer house 'Knarken' with a view of the beach and bay. The summer house, which was built in 1937 on two levels, is partly built into the dunes and follows the hilly terrain of the area.

Although the summer house has access to several sun terraces, Jacobsen reportedly spent only a few hours in the sun lounger. The summer house and nature in Odsherred was the place where he cultivated his great interest in botany and where he found inspiration and motifs for many of the watercolours, wallpapers and textiles he created in the 1950s.

The summer house has cultural-historical significance as an ideological front runner for a new architectural direction; the Nordic interpretation of modernism with the special immersion in the surroundings and the use of regional materials, which came to characterize the way of building houses and residences in the twentieth century.

The summer house was built in 1937 in Gudmindrup Lyng in Odsherred as a holiday home for Arne Jacobsen himself and his family. Realdania Byg & Byg bought the summer house in 2011 and restored it in 2012-2013. The house is today listed and rented out as a holiday home. There is usually no access to the house for the public.

Meeting point: note you cannot arrive all the way up to the house, follow this driving directions.