Georg Jensen Jewelry

The Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) first established a worldwide reputation as a designer of flatware, hollowware, and jewelry in the arts and crafts idiom of the early twentieth century. After his death, his eponymous firm then went on to achieve a foremost international reputation as producers of elegant and refined silver creations in the modernist style. This book surveys Jensen's work from his beginnings as a self-taught artist through the establishment of his silversmithy and beyond. His work and the work of many of the designers associated with his firm are highly sought after today, and Jensen is considered one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.

David Taylor is a folklorist and curator at the Library of Congress. He has been conducting research on Georg Jensen for more than thirty years and has published a book on Jensen’s hollowware.