GEORG JENSEN JEWELRY
On Exhibition: July 14, 2005 to October 16, 2005
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture is presenting the first major exhibition of jewelry created by Georg Jensen, the internationally renowned Danish firm founded in 1904 by the designer/silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) and still in operation today. The exhibition features about 300 exquisite pieces of jewelry fashioned from silver or gold, many embellished with a dazzling array of colorful precious and semi-precious stones. While the overwhelming majority of the items in the exhibition are brooches, bracelets, necklaces, rings, and other pieces of jewelry, rare pieces of Georg Jensen hollowware also are included. Few of the pieces from public collections have ever been shown in a Jensen jewelry exhibition, and most of the private collection jewelry has never been exhibited. Thus the exhibition offers a rare and in-depth opportunity to examine the work of the Jensen firm.