IMPECCABLE CRAFTSMANSHIP
From the moment he opened his silversmith in 1904, Georg Jensen set a tone for his company that would chart its course for decades to come. It’s innovative spirit, impeccable craftsmanship and Scandinavian design sensibility would become its hallmarks.
Jensen was a man of many talents, apprenticing as a goldsmith and training as a sculptor, early on he pioneered a tradition of collaborating with creative talent from outside the smithy. He trusted his eye and his skill but wanted more than his own perspective. These partnerships helped establish the brand as a place brimming with new ideas; his studio became home to a company of extraordinarily talented silversmiths and metalworkers, jewellers, designers and artists.
HIS OBITUARY IN THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE SALUTED HIM AS THE GREATEST SILVERSMITH OF THE LAST 300 YEARS AND HIS LEGACY AS A DESIGN INNOVATOR LIVES ON TODAY.
A KEPT TRADITION
The standards and philosophy of the smithy attracted some of the greatest artists. Over the years, numerous design icons – from Henning Koppel, Arne Jacobsen and Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe to Patricia Urquiola, Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid – have partnered with Georg Jensen to help push its boundaries, defy convention, and reimagine what design can be. A tradition kept on after the death of Georg Jensen in 1935 to this very day.
