Georg Jensen | Vivianna Torun Bülow- Hübe

A similar example exists in the Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, France

A similar example exists in The National Museum, Oslo, Norway

Ann Westin, Conversation with Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, 1996, page 78 for a description of the necklace and page 83 for a necklace of similar design.

Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe (1927 – 2004) was one of the most prominent female silversmiths of the 20^th century and was the first female silversmith in Sweden to own her own workshop. She designed what she called anti-status jewellery incorporating pebbles, granite, rocks and less valuable semi-precious stones such as moonstone into her work. She intended her jewellery not to show off a husband's wealth instead accentuate the wearer, believing that jewellery ‘must not overwhelm, but enhance you. This is why it must be timeless. It shouldn't matter if you are 17 or 87 years old’.

In 1958 she designed the original 'Mobile' necklace, an asymmetrical piece which winds around the wearers necklace. When hung from a thread it swung round on its own access, leading to praise as an innovative piece at the for front of design. Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe believed that this was the design that won her the Lunning Prize (now the Georg Jensen Prize) in 1959.