Georg Arthur Jensen (1866-1935) ...

Jensen was the son of a knife grinder from Raadvad, north of Copenhagen. Jensen began his goldsmith training at the age of 14 in Copenhagen. His apprenticeship with the firm Guldsmed Andersen, ended in 1884. From childhood, Jensen had longed to be a sculptor and he now pursued this course of study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated in 1892. He turned his hand to the applied arts. First as a modeller at the Bing & Grodahl porcelain factory and, in the beginning in 1898, with a small pottery workshop he founded with Christian Petersen. 

In 1901, he abandoned ceramics and began again as a silversmith and designer with the master, Mogens Ballin. This led Jensen to make a landmark decision, when in 1904, he risked what small capital he had and opened his own little silver smithy at 36  Bredgade in Copenhagen. Jensen's training in metalsmithing along with his education in the fine arts allowed him to combine the two disciplines. Soon, his fine quality Art Nouveau creations caught the eye of the public and his success was assured. The Copenhagen quarters were greatly expanded and before the end of the 1920s, Jensen had opened retail outlets as far ranging as New York, London, Paris, Stockholm, and Berlin.

Georg Jensen died in 1935, but in the preceding years he imbued the firm with his strongly held ideals concerning both artistry in design and excellence in craftsmanship.

Regitze Overgaard ...

She finished training as a goldsmith in 1970 and graduated from the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts in 1976. She has collaborated with Georg Jensen since 1987 and has produced a number of the brand’s most successful designs. Early in her career, her unique ability to capture nature’s organic yet infinite lines in precious metals won her attention from art and design world luminaries. 

Her inspiration may come from the light of a Nordic summer sky or water cascading over rocks or simply from movement. With distinctive elegance and purity, her jewellery expresses a freshness and modernity that radiates light and life. Regitze Overgaard works from the premise that jewellery should be as simple as possible, it should be the shape of the metal that wields artistic power, rather than external adornment. In Regitze Overgaard’s work, the form of the piece respects the natural curves of the body and accentuates it with a sense of style, elegance and individuality.