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Iconic Danish jewelry and tabletop brand Georg Jensen helped shape our understanding of ever-coveted Scandinavian design.
Jensen, who studied sculpture before turning to jewelry and metal, used art nouveau’s curving, switchback lines (but not its ornamentation) to create jewelry, hollowware, and objects in the early 1900s that were revolutionary in their lovely simplicity, asymmetry, and technical polish.
Jensen’s 1935 obituary in the
New York Herald Tribune called him the greatest silversmith of the last 300 years. And though the designer has been gone for almost a century, the profound mark he left on global design means the pressure is always on within his namesake brand to create pieces and collections that reach the high bars he established for innovation and sheer beauty.