Georg Jensen

Why it is renowned

Georg Jensen had shops in Berlin from 1909, London from 1921 and New York from 1924, and its silver won a gold medal in Brussels in 1910.¹ Museums collected his work in his lifetime, among them the Museum Folkwang in Germany, and in 2005 the Bard Graduate Center in New York gave his jewellery an exhibition of its own.¹ The Swedish silversmith Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe designed for the house from 1969; her work is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Louvre.²

The story

Georg Jensen trained as a goldsmith, studied sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and made his first piece of jewellery in 1899, a silver and gilt belt buckle.¹ He opened his own silversmithy at Bredgade 36 in Copenhagen in 1904.¹ His early jewellery used rounded organic shapes set with amber, garnet, citrine, moonstone and opal.¹ Later designers for the house include Torun, Nanna Ditzel, Arno Malinowski and Astrid Fog.³² The company is based in Frederiksberg and has belonged to the Fiskars group since 2023.⁴

What to know it by

• Moonlight GrapesSilver jewellery with bunches of grapes
• DaisyEnamelled flower jewellery
• Mobius1959Vivianna Torun Bülow-HübeNecklace with a crystal drop
• TorunVivianna Torun Bülow-HübeBangles, neck rings and earrings