Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Torun Bracelet with Quartz

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Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Torun Bracelet with Quartz

About the Item

Georg Jensen sterling silver Torun bracelet with Quartz #207. Measures 5,8m ( 2 1/4") in inner diameter. It can be opened. The Quarts stone measures 1.5cm ( 3/5"). Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe (1927-2004), whose artistic name was simply Torun, was born the youngest of four children in Malmö, Sweden. Her father was a director of town planning, her mother a sculptor. At 18, despite being pregnant with her first child, Pia, Torun attended the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm. She later married Pia’s father, a Danish journalism student, but the marriage was short-lived. In 1948, Torun travelled to Paris, where she met Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Georges Braque. Soon after, she married her second husband, a French architect and designed and made jewellery in her Stockholm workshop while having a second child, Claude. In 1956, she divorced again and moved to Paris with her third husband, Afro-American painter Walter Coleman, with whom she had two children, Ira and Marcia. Through Coleman, Torun met many well-known jazz artists including Billie Holiday, who became a friend and often wore her jewellery on stage. Torun set up a workshop in Biot, in the south of France and sold her jewellery through the Galerie Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, where much of it was bought by high-profile clients such as Brigitte Bardot and Ingrid Bergman. Torun was awarded a gold medal at the 1960 Milan Triennale and the same year won Denmark’s lunning prize for pioneering “a unique artistic contribution.” From 1967, Georg Jensen took up production of her designs, including the Möbius bangle and hidden heart pendant. Around this time, Torun had become a devoted member of a spiritual association called Subud and moved to Germany to be closer to a community of like-minded people. She designed jewellery from studios there until 1978, when she accepted a design consultancy job for a charitable organisation in Indonesia. She continued to create pieces for Georg Jensen from her studio in Pamulang outside Jakarta and was awarded the Prince Eugen medal in 1992 by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for outstanding artistic achievement. After falling ill, she left Indonesia in 2002 to live with her daughter Marcia in Denmark before her death in 2004 at the age of 76. Fast facts. Style. Torun’s jewellery is essentially an interpretation of nature. She loved organic forms like leaves, pools and spirals and her pieces flow with a sensuous life of their own. She worked primarily in silver and semi-precious stones like amethyst and moonstone, and hated the idea of designing for rich women who treated jewellery “as a sign of their husbands’ fortunes.” Her very early designs were simple neck rings with drops of polished pebbles and ovoid-shaped glass. Best known for her open watch of 1962 is more jewellery than watch. Its elegant, numberless face flows into an open bracelet just wide enough for a slender female wrist. “I wanted to free people from the slavery of time,” Torun explained. “The watch is open-ended to symbolise that time should not bind us and the dial like a mirror reminds us that life is now.” Renamed the ‘Vivianna’ in honour of its creator, it was the first watch Georg Jensen ever produced and continues to be a huge success.

Creator:
Georg Jensen (Manufacturer),Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 0.6 in (1.5 cm)Diameter: 2.29 in (5.8 cm)
Style:
Scandinavian Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Quartz,Sterling Silver
Place of Origin:
Denmark
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1960s-1970s
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Copenhagen, DK
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU160123348302

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Georg Jensen

For over a century, Georg Jensen 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. Known for minimal aesthetics that reference nature, the craftsmanship of this legendary Danish silverware firm has regularly married function with thoughtful and beautiful design.

Founder Georg Jensen (1866–1935) was born in the small town of Radvaad, Denmark, and began his training as a goldsmith at 14. After studying sculpture and then training with master silversmith Mogens Ballin, he established his own silver business in Copenhagen in 1904. By 1918, the company was successful enough to open a shop in Paris.

Jensen’s firm produced an incredibly vast range of silver objects, from serving dishes and barware to centerpieces and chandeliers. For his early work, which bore ornate floral details and other organic forms of Art Nouveau, Jensen looked to the splendors of the natural world. The 1905 Blossom teapot, for instance, was topped with a magnolia bud and deftly balanced on toad feet, while some of Jensen’s best-known flatware patterns included Lily of the Valley, introduced in 1913, and Acorn, which debuted in 1915.

Collaboration with outside designers, long before such partnerships were common in design, would lead to some of the company’s most popular and enduring work of the mid-century. Sigvard Bernadotte and Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe created collections, as did Henning Koppel, whose curvy 1952 Pregnant Duck pitcher is a Georg Jensen classic.

After evolving and expanding throughout the 20th century, Georg Jensen was acquired by Investcorp in 2012. Today, the company is a global luxury brand with more than 1,000 stores around the world. It continues to produce seductive new pieces, such as a tea service made with Marc Newson in 2015, as well as timeless heritage designs, including the relaunch in 2019 of the 1018 solid sterling-silver Tureen 270. In 2020, the firm introduced the Jardinière 1505. Sculptural and richly decorative, the never-before-realized showpiece is hand-hammered from sheets of the finest sterling silver and is based on a 1915 sketch from Jensen’s archives.

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