Fairy-tale Copenhagen
So much more than a mermaid! When Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, commissioned the diminutive sculpture of Hans Christian Anderson’s Little Mermaid, its unlikely that he anticipated it becoming the definitive icon that identifies Copenhagen. As the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower and Tower Bridge are symbols of much greater entities, the Little Mermaid sits alone on a rock and gives little insight into the city she...
