For the record

An interesting look at the silverwork of Georg Jensen and seventy-five other designers who contributed to the worldwide success of the Jensen name. It was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery (part of the Smithsonian) Washington DC in 1980. Since it was published other designers now take the number to over a hundred. The exhibition had 147 items on display but the book mostly shows one photographed piece from each designer though more famous names get more, for example, Nanna Ditzel four, Henning Koppel nine, Harald Neilson three, Johan Rohde six.

The book is arranged alphabetically with each designer getting a brief biography and a technical caption describing the work, the front pages have a twelve-page illustrated essay by Erik Larsen, director of the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen about the history of the Jensen company. As it was published years ago before exhibition catalogs became a more permanent record of the subject with creative book design and color photography these pages are rather bland looking using photos from the Jensen archives. I bought the book recently basically to use as a historical guide to the artists who worked for Georg Jensen in past decades.