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Sigvard Bernadotte
Sigvard Bernadotte (1907-2002), the son of Gustav Adolf VI, King of Sweden, was one of Scandinavia's pioneering industrial designers. His firm Bernadotte and Bjorn, later the Bernadotte Design Studio, was responsible for a number of significant industrial products ranging from kitchen equipment to tractors.
Bernadotte joined the Jensen firm in 1931 and provided designs for a 50-year period. He was trained in the fine arts and was not a silversmith. He was the first designer at the Jensen firm to work completely in the modernist style and acknowledged that his work was a reaction against the decorated styles of Jensen and Rohde. Much of his earlier work for the firm is characterized by a preference for engraved lines and fluting, such as his Bernadotte pattern flatware (lot 372). Bernadotte's later work, such as the 1952 flat-iron pitcher (lot 371), is a contrast to his early designs in its extreme simplicity and lack of surface decoration.
A SILVER PITCHER DESIGNED BY SIGVARD BERNADOTTE
MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1945-1977
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A SILVER PITCHER DESIGNED BY SIGVARD BERNADOTTE
MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1945-1977
Of flat iron form, with an ebony handle, no. 1010, marked under base, also with Swedish import marks
6 1/3 in. (16.2 cm.) high; 20 oz. (631 gr.) gross weight
MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1945-1977
Of flat iron form, with an ebony handle, no. 1010, marked under base, also with Swedish import marks
6 1/3 in. (16.2 cm.) high; 20 oz. (631 gr.) gross weight