Georg Jensen Sterling and Amber Pendant Necklace - Gross 0.665 ozt. Art Nouveau design, with the amber nestled in the sterling leaf-shaped backing. Marked on back. 

Length: 28 in. 

Gross Weight: 0.665 ozt. 

After finishing his studies at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1892, Georg Jensen (1866-1935) tried his hand at clay sculptures, before moving to the applied arts. He began as a modeler at the Bing & Grøndahl porcelain factory and in 1898 opened his own pottery shop. In 1901 he abandoned ceramics and started working as a silversmith apprentice under the master and designer Mogens Ballin. In 1904 he opened his own silversmithy in Copenhagen, which came to be called Georg Jensen A/S (originally Georg Jensens Sølvsmedie A/S). In 1909 Jensen opened a shop in Berlin, and in 1917 wartime troubles led him to ask for help from his brother-in-law, Thorolf Møller, along with one of his biggest clients, the industrialist Peder Anders Pedersen (1869-1937). The two invested in the company, and Pedersen took over as chairman of the board. The interwar period caused the company to struggle further, and in 1925 Georg moved to Paris to open a new company separate from his original enterprise. It failed as well, but Pedersen invited him to act as a creative consultant at the company he had started, which he did so until his death. Pedersen’s son, Anders Hostrup-Pedersen (1902-1980), took over the company when his father died as well in 1937, and worked with Frederik Lunning in New York to make Georg Jensen a successful brand in America, convinced that capturing a market outside of Europe was the only way to survive. He attracted prominent Danish artists like Sigvard Bernadotte, Henning Koppel, Nanna Ditzel to work at the Dutch factory alongside Søren Georg Jensen, the founder’s son. In 1972, porcelain giant Royal Copenhagen purchased Georg Jensen and merged it with Orrefors Kosta Boda, Boda-Nova Höganäs Keramik, and Venini, to create the multinational Royal Scandinavia Group. In 2001 the private equity group Axcel Capital Partners bought the Group, and in 2012 Investcorp acquired the Georg Jensen brand from Axcel for $140 million. The Finnish consumer goods group Fiskars purchased the brand from Investcorp in 2023, with production still taking place at the original Copenhagen factory.

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