A Swedish interior decorator and furniture designer, he is among the most significant figures in Scandinavian design for his lamps inspired by the precedents of Poul Henningsen and Alvar Aalto. In 1951 he founded his eponymous furniture company, Hans-Agne Jakobsson AB, which in fifty years produced more than two thousand models of lamps, using very different techniques and materials, from glass to wood, as in the famous case of the Laminated Pine Pendant, whose design was later taken up by IKEA .