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York women really love their jewelry. Last week, more than 200 of them turned up for the opening of \'\'Georg Jensen Jewelry,\'\' the new exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, at 18 West 86th Street in Manhattan. Proudly dressing their Jensen confections, the guests included 2 of Jensen\'s granddaughters and several collectors, within them Susan Weber Soros, the founder and mentor of the centre and one of the authors of the 350-page classify (Yale University Press).
Americans are versed with Jensen silver, especially the flatware, which has been sold here since 1915. Today there namely a mammoth mart in ancient Jensen silver: a silver brooch with inlaid semiprecious stones tin sell as as many as $30,000, and this spring a single-owner marketing of vintage Jensen at Christie\'s reached record prices.
The Bard show traces the go of the company through the 20th century (it\'s still in business), with Jensen\'s sketches, signed and unsigned, his and his companion artists\' design writings, and more than 300 pieces of jewelry lent from Georg Jensen Ltd., several repositories, private individuals, Drucker Antiques of New York and the Silver Fund, a London gallery that specializes in antique Jensen silver. People who know tiny alternatively nothing approximately 20th-century Danish silver jewelry ambition be impressed by the variety of the designs and the craftsmanship. Connoisseurs may be wondered by ultra-modern pieces that approximate Arp statues.
Georg Jensen (1866-1935) grew up in the countryside appearance Copenhagen; a ecology sweetheart, he recalled his family\'s attribute as \'\'a paradise aboard globe.\'\' When he was 14, the kin migrated to Copenhagen, and he attended craft educate, which comprised a four-year apprenticeship with a goldsmith. After graduating, he tried -- and failed -- to acquire a living as one artist. The show, which is laid out chronologically, opens with some of the early pottery Jensen was incapable to sell and a plaster breast of his dad.
By 1895 Jensen was married, the father of two babies and in need of money. He took a job as a boss in an art-metal workshop. In his reproductive cycle, he made silver jewelry ornamented with botanical motifs, and it sold. In 1904 he opened his own workshop with a few apprentices and a lot of minds.
\'\'When he came in the morn, he dragged a digit of drawings from his pocket,\'\' Henry Pilstrup, his premier beginner, afterward recalled (quoted in the catalog by the show\'s curator, David A. Taylor, who has studied the Jensen company for 30 years). \'\'The drawings were on any variety of periodical he had held in his hand at the time -- occasionally the drawings were on a torn-off piece of wrapping paper.\'\'
The bracelets, brooches,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], belt buckles and cilia combs he formed by hand soon conquered acclaim. In 1904, one commentator wrote, \'\'Unlike anyone another, Georg Jensen has built someone radically new in awakening the prettiness of silver, which has until immediately been comatose.\'\' The jewelry was complimented for its well-balanced compositions, its spacious palette of colors and the manifest leadership of its mowing, filing, soldering, stone setting and lustering. (\'\'I meditation namely has been my great advantage: that I was a craftsman first and an artist second,\'\' Jensen once said.)
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