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SIGVARD BERNADOTTE, (1907-2002)
Sigvard Bernadotte, 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 Bernadotte's later work, such as the 1952 flat-iron pitcher is a contrast to his early designs in its extreme simplicity and lack of surface decoration.
A DANISH BOX AND COVER DESIGNED BY SIGVARD BERNADOTTE
MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1945-1977
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A DANISH BOX AND COVER DESIGNED BY SIGVARD BERNADOTTE
MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1945-1977
Square with rounded corners, the hinged cover with drop-ring handle, no. 969, marked underneath
4 in. (10.2 cm.) square
MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1945-1977
Square with rounded corners, the hinged cover with drop-ring handle, no. 969, marked underneath
4 in. (10.2 cm.) square
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