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Georg Jensen was a designer born in the small town of Radvaad, Denmark. He trained as a goldsmith, studied sculpture, trained with master silversmith Mogens Ballin and eventually established his own silver business in Copenhagen in 1904.
For over a century, Jensen’s eponymous firm has produced some of the finest objects in Scandinavian modern design, including silver tableware, serving pieces, home decor, jewelry and more, frequently partnering with leading artisans to expand its offerings and respond to shifting tastes.
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For over a century, Jensen’s eponymous firm has produced some of the finest objects in Scandinavian modern design, including silver tableware, serving pieces, home decor, jewelry and more, frequently partnering with leading artisans to expand its offerings and respond to shifting tastes.
Find exquisite Georg Jensen jewelry on 1stDibs.
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Georg Jensen Denmark Sterling Silver 30 Lapis Lazuli Paris Bracelet #25815
By Georg Jensen
Located in Washington Depot, CT
Georg Jensen Denmark Sterling Silver 30 Lapis Lazuli Paris Bracelet
This bracelet is a rare, vintage pattern #30, featuring articulated alternating design links with a large oval st...
Category
20th Century Link Bracelets
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Sterling Silver
GEORG JENSEN Denmark Sterling Silver Articulated Link Bracelet c 1970s
By Georg Jensen
Located in University City, MO
GEORG JENSEN Denmark Sterling silver articulated link bracelet
The severe minimalist design is comprised of a series of triangular
articulated links
The unique closure mechanism ...
Category
Late 20th Century Danish Artisan Link Bracelets
Materials
Sterling Silver
$960 Sale Price
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Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Atomic Brooch by Henning Koppel
By Georg Jensen
Located in Mount Kisco, NY
Georg Jensen Atomic Brooch designed by Henning Koppel in a modern minimalist form that is truly striking in polished sterling silver. Henning was a Danish artist and designer known ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Brooches
Materials
Sterling Silver
Modernist Georg Jensen Astrid Fog Large Sterling Silver Cross Bars Necklace
By Georg Jensen
Located in New York, NY
Scarce large 1970's Scandinavian Modernist sterling silver cross bars necklace by Astrid Fog for Georg Jensen.
Astrid Fog (1911-1993) designed her first jewelry collection for Georg Jensen in 1969. Her jewelry designs are distinctive for their large scale and bold, modernist style using classic geometric forms such as rectangles, circles and squares. She successfully utilized high quality lightweight, hollow silver forms to create pieces which were striking as well as comfortable to wear.
This beautiful necklace is from the estate of a noted New York City psychiatrist who collected interesting, unusual, often one-of-a-kind jewelry.
The pendant measures 2.19 inches by 2.19 inches.
The chain is 29 inches long.
Marks: 379 925 S Denmark Georg Jensen...
Category
20th Century Danish Modernist Pendant Necklaces
Materials
Sterling Silver
9ct Gold Georg Jensen St.Christopher Pendant
By Georg Jensen
Located in London, GB
9ct 375 Gold St,Christopher
By Goldsmiths Georg Jensen
Fully Hallmarked dated 1980
Size : 2 cm x 1.6cm ( approx.)
Weight 2.79 grams
Please note : Surface scratches visible on reve...
Category
Late 20th Century Pendant Necklaces
Materials
Gold, 9k Gold
1970's Georg Jensen Sterling Red Agate Necklace Vivianna Torun
By Georg Jensen
Located in Toronto, ON
Vivianna Torun Bulow Hube for George Jensen, a rare Sterling Silver Necklace with reddish brown banded agate detachable pendant on collar, Denmark, C. 1975, stamped Georg Jensen in a dotted oval, Denmark, Torun, 133 pendant and 160 collar and 925S. Will fit up to 16 inch neck, pendant drop approximately 2.75 inches, width of agate 2 inches. Item Weight: 123 grams. Ref: The Jewellery Box Jens Ingvordsen P.275. Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hube know as Torun, was born 1927 in Malmo, Sweden. Torun was the first woman silversmith in the world to gain international recognition. She studied at Konstfack, the School of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, beginning in 1945 while pregnant with her first child, Pia. Eventually she married the child's father, a Danish journalism student. In 1948, Torun spent the summer in Paris meeting Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and the other great artists of the day. She married a French architect and lived in Stockholm until 1956 having a second child, a son, Claude. As early as 1952, Torun exhibited her jewelry, made both in Stockholm and France (and bearing hallmarks from each country) in Paris. In 1956 she moved to France with her third husband, Walter Coleman. She designed jewelry for among others, Billie Holiday which Holiday wore when she performed. The couple moved to Biot in the south of France. Torun produced many pieces during this period when young Swedish silversmiths would come to work in her studio, introducing her to new techniques. Torun renewed her acquaintance with Picasso who lived in the area and an exhibition of Torun jewelry...
Category
Vintage 1970s Danish Modernist More Jewelry
Materials
Agate, Sterling Silver


