The JACOB JENSEN™ Telephone 80 is a cordless DECT telephone designed by Jacob Jensen Design for Bell Xpress A/S, who has developed the telephone in a partnership with one of the world-leading technology companies, RTX in Denmark. This cooperation ensures high technical quality and includes new distinctive features. Moreover, it is a delight to the eye whether it is mounted on the wall or placed on the desk.

The double-oval design of the light and elegant handset enables a good grip on the telephone and allows the user to position the handset on the base with the display and keypad upwards or downwards, as they prefer. The design of the speaker and the microphone gives us nostalgic memories of Jacob Jensen’s award winning design of revolutionary record player in the 70s. The luminous numbers, letters and icons in the display alongside with the keypad backlight give a clear view in all kinds of lighting.

New technology for the sake of convenience: The Telephone 80 is equipped with a menu driven interface that is easy to use. The sound quality is eminent with adjustable ringer volume, bass and treble, and the ring tones have been specifically composed for this telephone. In addition the telephone can be used hand free.

When more handsets are connected, the Telephone 80 can operate as a switchboard enabling communication between the handsets. Furthermore, the Telephone 80’s software automatically reduces the radiation from the cordless signal to the absolute minimum for efficient function.

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With more than 500 products designed since the beginning of the 1950’s, Jacob Jensen is possibly the most represented designer in the Danish home.

Through an original, simple, and today classic form language, he has time and again shown us that the products, which are a part of our everyday lives, can contain a quiet beauty. Jacob Jensen is for many Danes the very symbol of good design, mainly due to his work for B&O.

Internationally, Jacob Jensen is one of the most award-winning designers in the world. He is represented in museums all over the globe, among these The Museum of Modern Art in New York, where 15 of his products are included in their permanent collection. Christian Holmsted Olesen, Curator at The Danish Museum of Art & Design, writes that with regard to his design historical importance, several of Jacob Jensen’s works can be seen as “sophisticated extracts of 20th century design”.

Jacob Jensen is an industrial designer, trained in the furniture division of the School of Arts and Craft in Copenhagen. His unique design has reached its international position because it combines and distils two main streams in 20th century design. On the one hand, the idealistic European Bauhaus tradition, with its minimalist “Less is More”, and its modernist “Form follows Function”. On the other hand, the American design icon Raymond Loewy’s consumer-oriented MAYA principle: “Most Advanced Yet Acceptable”. Jacob Jensen’s achievement in the history of design is his creation of an ultra modern minimalist form language with extraordinary consumer appeal. By maintaining that “Form follows Feelings” he brings curiosity and excitement into Bauhaus.

Christian Holmsted Olesen characterizes Jacob Jensen’s form language as “mature modernism”. Jacob Jensen himself calls his design philosophy: “Different but not strange”. This results in a design, which distances itself emphatically from its competitors, but at the same time, is immediately comprehensible.

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