GEORG JENSEN - Koppel 925 Limited Edition NEW
Henning Koppel
1918-1981
Henning Koppel is responsible for what we have come to think of as “Danish design".
Koppel was an earlier pioneer of functionalism in design: his mission was to make everyday life products beautiful as well as practical. He was trained as a sculptor and began collaborating with Georg Jensen in 1946.
Henning Koppel is born to a wealthy Jewish family and showed an early talent for art, leading him to train in both drawing and aquarelle early on. He continued studies in sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy and later in Paris. His superb drafting skills, developed as a child, helped him in to produce outstanding product renderings of his designs. Even on their own, they form an exceptional body of work.
Koppel was an earlier pioneer of functionalism in design: his mission was to make everyday life products beautiful as well as practical. He was trained as a sculptor and began collaborating with Georg Jensen in 1946.
Henning Koppel is born to a wealthy Jewish family and showed an early talent for art, leading him to train in both drawing and aquarelle early on. He continued studies in sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy and later in Paris. His superb drafting skills, developed as a child, helped him in to produce outstanding product renderings of his designs. Even on their own, they form an exceptional body of work.
Like many Danish Jews, Koppel fled to Sweden during the Second World War. At 27, he returned and began working at Georg Jensen, which marked his start in jewellery, hollowware and flatware design. His first works – a series of necklaces and linked bracelets resembling whale vertebrae and microscopic organisms - were small masterpieces in imaginative modelling. Henning Koppel was in every way groundbreaking and his jewellery was unlike anything ever created at the silver smithy in its first 40 years.
When Henning Koppel died in 1981, aged 63, he had created an astonishing range of work: from stainless steel cutlery such as “New York” which found its way into the homes of millions, to magnificent one-off signature pieces such as the silver and crystal chandelier he designed to celebrate the 75-year anniversary of Georg Jensen in 1979.
During his life, he won many awards including the Milan Triennial, the International Design Award and the Lunning Prize. Accolades are important, but what means even more to us is that people still choose to wear a watch by Henning Koppel or to serve coffee from one of his pots. The integrity and appeal of his designs remain vital and undiminished.
Time is invisible, infinite and intimate. It knows no numbers
Danish Watch Design at its Best
The Koppel 925 Limited Edition unites the masterful artistry of Georg Jensen’s legendary silversmiths with the precision of Swiss watch-making traditions as a tribute to the heritage of the Georg Jensen silver smithy.
Honouring the timeless elegance and understated spirit of the Koppel collection, the Koppel 925 Limited Edition comprises twenty unique and individually numbered timepieces, offered with a hand-hammered sterling silver dial. The Georg Jensen signature hammer-stroke surface of the dial is created at Georg Jensen’s legendary silversmithy in Copenhagen, by a single silversmith working the polished metal.
The hammered surface is the mark of a true master craftsman and demands precision and expertise to create; his skilled and nimble fingers carefully tap the shining metal into the perfect dimensions and structure. Shining like moonlight, the silver dial perfectly complements the sophisticated slender black and blued steel hands, which gracefully glide across Koppel’s signature numberless dial.
Carrying the signature of the silversmith who personally crafted this exclusive timepiece, this edition exudes an exclusivity and individuality synonymous with the highest level of design and quality. The Koppel 925 Limited Edition is a masterpiece of design and engineering. The watch is available only in 20 pieces only, all individually numbered and engraved with the signature of the silversmith.
The Koppel 925 Limited Edition is presented in an exclusive wooden box embellished with an engraved silver plate.
The watch is now available in selected Georg Jensen stores.
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