VIVIANA TORUN
“A piece of jewelry should be like a caress.
Not to seize you, but to follow you in all your movements and accompany you throughout your life”.
Do you know Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hube? Or perhaps you know Georg Jensen for whom the jeweler designed models and made herself known?
Born in 1927 in Malmö, Sweden, Viviana Torun Bülow-Hube was one of the first female designers to acquire an international reputation. A pioneer of the idea of movement and volume through the use of money. A tightrope walker playing with the contours of circles, squares and voluptuous movements, she draws her inspiration from her observation of the body balance of figure skaters.
“It’s a bit like writing: if you can’t form all the letters correctly, you can’t write a long, flowing story.”
The leader of jewelry designed by women for women and men, jewelry to wear, gender neutral. It brings a new language to jewelry, sensual, alive, in movement, pure. And behind the apparent simplicity of these pieces, there are significant challenges for the most talented goldsmiths.
She said of these jewels: