11 Georg Jensen jewelry treasures are reissued from the archive

Georg Jensen has a wealthy jewelry heritage, with a particular aesthetic outlined by a smooth minimalism. Artist-makers together with Kim Naver, Nanna Ditzel and Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe formed an enduring design heritage within the second half of the 20th century, establishing a smooth, sensual design eponymous with Danish design ideas.

It’s a historical past Georg Jensen referenced at 2026’s Matter and Form in Paris (6-9 March), unveiling a brand new assortment of reissued archive jewelry referred to as The Collector. Inventive director Paula Gerbase has curated 11 items from the Copenhagen archive, resisting the notion of a jewelry assortment as we might usually perceive it – quite, every bit right here is symbolic of a singular jewelled art work.

‘This assortment of distinctive items took place fairly naturally – with the intention of being led by intuition and exploration,’ Gerbase says. ‘Slightly than searching for classical cohesion, the strategy was centered on particular person expression, a sure eccentricity and works which had presence as standalone [pieces] in an ensemble of harmonious opposition.’

For Gerbase, it’s key that the feminine artist-makers who created the items stay on the coronary heart of the home’s creativity at present in a pure extension of Georg Jensen’s historic assist for rising artists. ‘The Lunning Prize [Georg Jensen’s craft prize, which ran from 1951 to 1970] was an incubator of world-class expertise,’ Gerbase provides. ‘It introduced works by Scandinavian artistic abilities throughout a variety of modalities, after which prolonged winners an invite for open-ended play and experimentation within the Copenhagen silversmithy in collaboration with the artisans. It’s this spirit of freedom of exploration which I adopted, approaching the archive not with a set thought of what a group may appear to be however quite permitting for extra instinctive curiosity in my decisions.’

The reissued jewelry shares a dedication to sensual kinds and pared-back, easy silhouettes. ‘The curation of the gathering has been an schooling in these girls’s practices, and a research in how creative expression evolves by time,’ says Gerbase.

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