For over a century, Georg Jensen has produced some of the finest objects in Scandinavian modern design, including silver tableware, serving pieces, home decor, jewelry and more, frequently partnering with leading artisans to expand its offerings and respond to shifting tastes. Known for minimal aesthetics that reference nature, the craftsmanship of this legendary Danish silverware firm has regularly married function with thoughtful and beautiful design.
Founder Georg Jensen (1866–1935) was born in the small town of Radvaad, Denmark, and began his training as a goldsmith at 14. After studying sculpture and then training with master silversmith Mogens Ballin, he established his own silver business in Copenhagen in 1904. By 1918, the company was successful enough to open a shop in Paris.
Jensen’s firm produced an incredibly vast range of silver objects, from serving dishes and barware to centerpieces and chandeliers. For his early work, which bore ornate floral details and other organic forms of Art Nouveau, Jensen looked to the splendors of the natural world. The 1905 Blossom teapot, for instance, was topped with a magnolia bud and deftly balanced on toad feet, while some of Jensen’s best-known flatware patterns included Lily of the Valley, introduced in 1913, and Acorn, which debuted in 1915.
Collaboration with outside designers, long before such partnerships were common in design, would lead to some of the company’s most popular and enduring work of the mid-century. Sigvard Bernadotte and Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe created collections, as did Henning Koppel, whose curvy 1952 Pregnant Duck pitcher is a Georg Jensen classic.
After evolving and expanding throughout the 20th century, Georg Jensen was acquired by Investcorp in 2012. Today, the company is a global luxury brand with more than 1,000 stores around the world. It continues to produce seductive new pieces, such as a tea service made with Marc Newson in 2015, as well as timeless heritage designs, including the relaunch in 2019 of the 1018 solid sterling-silver Tureen 270. In 2020, the firm introduced the Jardinière 1505. Sculptural and richly decorative, the never-before-realized showpiece is hand-hammered from sheets of the finest sterling silver and is based on a 1915 sketch from Jensen’s archives.
Find an exquisite collection of Georg Jensen serveware, ceramics, silver and glass today on 1stDibs.
Sterling Silver Design #15 Necklace by Georg Jensen
By Georg Jensen
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
This sterling silver necklace is a design by Danish jeweller and silversmith, Georg Jensen. The necklace is known as pattern '15', and by the mark to the rear of one of the links we ...
Sterling Silver, Silver
Pierre Cardin 1970 Paris Geometric Long Necklace Chain In .925 Sterling Silver
By Pierre Cardin
Located in Miami, FL
Geometric chain necklace designed by Pierre Cardin (1922-2020). Wonderful necklace chain, created during the French modernist period by the fashion designer Pierre Cardin, back in the 1970. This rare chain has been crafted in solid .925/1000 sterling silver with high polished finish. The design is composed by twenty-seven geometric elements in the shape of the Pierre Cardin logo, connected in between with circular links. Fitted with a discrete lobster lock with a plaque showing also the Pierre Cardin initials, PC. Weight: 32.7 grams (20.96). Length: 24.5 inches (62.23 cm). Measurements: The links are 22 mm by 7.5 mm by 1 mm (0.87 x 0.28 x 0.04 Inches) Hallmarks: Stamped with the maker's mark, the mark for the assay of the silver and signed, "PIERRE CARDIN STERLING...
Silver, Sterling Silver
Regitze Overgaard for Georg Jensen. Pendant in sterling silver, 2004
By Regitze Overgaard for Georg Jensen
Located in bronshoj, DK
Regitze Overgaard for Georg Jensen. Infinity. Pendant in sterling silver with matching silk cord. 2004. Pendant approx. 25 mm. In original Georg Jensen box. In perfect condition. Mar...
Sterling Silver
John Lewis Boston Modernist Hand Hammered Sterling Silver Link Necklace
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine necklace by John Lewis. With hand-hammered rectangular wafer links in sterling silver. John Lewis was a Boston modernist jewelry maker. He was highly regarded and was known ...
Sterling Silver
Silver Necklace Astrid Fog Georg Jensen
By Astrid Fog, Georg Jensen
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
silver hallmarks -925 S DENMARK - Georg Gensen -175 -another hallmark with Vicking hat between letters A and D The necklace weight is 53,66 grammes
Sterling Silver
Jacqueline Rabun for Georg Jensen. Children's necklace in sterling silver.
By Georg Jensen
Located in bronshoj, DK
Jacqueline Rabun for Georg Jensen. Children's necklace in sterling silver. Modernist pendant. Late 20th century. Marked. In perfect condition. Dimensions: L 36.5 cm.
Sterling Silver
Jacqueline Rabun for Georg Jensen. Children's necklace, sterling silver.
By Georg Jensen
Located in bronshoj, DK
Jacqueline Rabun for Georg Jensen. Children's necklace in sterling silver. Modernist pendant. Late 20th century. Marked. In perfect condition. Dimensions: L 36.5 cm.
Sterling Silver
Jacqueline Rabun for Georg Jensen. Children's necklace, sterling silver.
By Georg Jensen
Located in bronshoj, DK
Jacqueline Rabun for Georg Jensen. Children's necklace in sterling silver. Modernist pendant. Late 20th century. Marked. In perfect condition. Dimensions: L 36.5 cm.
Sterling Silver
M. Cohen Sterling Silver Quadrangular Box Link Chain Necklace
Located in Montclair, NJ
Material: Sterling Silver .925 Weight: 42.15 Grams Chain Type: Quadrangular Box Link Chain Length: 17 Inches (measured next to ruler) Link Width: 3.31mm (0.13") (approx.) Closure: Ho...
Sterling Silver
PIERRE CARDIN 1970 Paris Modernist Long Necklace Sautoir In .925 Sterling Silver
By Pierre Cardin
Located in Miami, FL
Modernist chain necklace designed by Pierre Cardin (1922-2020). This is a beautiful long sautoir necklace, created during the French modernist period by the fashion designer Pierre...
Silver, Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Nanna Ditzel Sterling Silver Necklace No. 106
By Georg Jensen
Located in Toronto, ON
Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Necklace by Nanna Ditzel, No. 106. Modernist design, post 1940 marks. Georg Jensen oval dotted punch Sterling Denmark 106 marks. Length: 14.25 inches. Item weight: 114 grams. Ref: P. 274 Georg Jensen Jewelry...
Sterling Silver
South American Sterling Necklace and matching Bracelet, C.1950
Located in Toronto, ON
Sterling hand-wrought flexible large chevron and silver sphere Necklace and matching Bracelet, possibly South American C.1950. The links of chevron groove design, each accented and c...
Sterling Silver
Vivianna Torun Bulow Hube for Georg Jensen Quartz Necklace
By Georg Jensen
Located in Toronto, ON
Vivianna Torun Bulow Hube for Georg Jensen, a rare silver brown rock crystal pendant on collar, Denmark, C. 1969, #169 and 132, stamped Georg Jensen in a dotted oval, Denmark, Torun,...
Quartz, Sterling Silver
1970's Georg Jensen Sterling Red Agate Necklace Vivianna Torun
By Georg Jensen
Located in Toronto, ON
Vivianna Torun Bulow Hube for George Jensen, a rare Sterling Silver Necklace with reddish brown banded agate detachable pendant on collar, Denmark, C. 1975, stamped Georg Jensen in a dotted oval, Denmark, Torun, 133 pendant and 160 collar and 925S. Will fit up to 16 inch neck, pendant drop approximately 2.75 inches, width of agate 2 inches. Item Weight: 123 grams. Ref: The Jewellery Box Jens Ingvordsen P.275. Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hube know as Torun, was born 1927 in Malmo, Sweden. Torun was the first woman silversmith in the world to gain international recognition. She studied at Konstfack, the School of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, beginning in 1945 while pregnant with her first child, Pia. Eventually she married the child's father, a Danish journalism student. In 1948, Torun spent the summer in Paris meeting Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and the other great artists of the day. She married a French architect and lived in Stockholm until 1956 having a second child, a son, Claude. As early as 1952, Torun exhibited her jewelry, made both in Stockholm and France (and bearing hallmarks from each country) in Paris. In 1956 she moved to France with her third husband, Walter Coleman. She designed jewelry for among others, Billie Holiday which Holiday wore when she performed. The couple moved to Biot in the south of France. Torun produced many pieces during this period when young Swedish silversmiths would come to work in her studio, introducing her to new techniques. Torun renewed her acquaintance with Picasso who lived in the area and an exhibition of Torun jewelry...
Agate, Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Torun Sterling Amethyst Quartz Necklace, circa 1960
By Georg Jensen
Located in Toronto, ON
Rare Sterling Silver Necklace and double tear drop design no 135 with Amethyst and Quartz Drops Designed by Vivianna Torun Bulow-Hube for Georg Jensen C.1960, together with Necklet c...
Amethyst, Quartz
Georg Jensen Astrid fog design Bangle No 222 C.1969
By Georg Jensen
Located in Toronto, ON
Georg Jensen Astrid fog design Bangle No 222 C.1969. Of open brick-work design, mounted in sterling silver, inner diameter 66mm, will fit up to average 6.75 -7.00 inch wrist. Each li...
Sterling Silver
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