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Dynamic Fahrner Necklace With Pearls & Marcasites in Silver, ca. 1955

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Dynamic Fahrner Necklace With Pearls & Marcasites in Silver, ca. 1955

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

Everyone knows them, the kidney tables of the 1950s. Some love them, some find them hideous, but no one will be able to deny that with their form a departure from the rigidity of the 3rd Reich took hold. The curved forms were first reflected in the field of architecture, especially in small pavilions, staircases, ceiling coverings and took free forms that wanted to be everything but rigid and symmetrical. Seventeen uniform ornamental links form the necklace presented here, which belongs to this environment. They appear in the form of a spreading band of silver and wind around themselves in moving asymmetry. Thus, they produce a form reminiscent of the very architectures of the immediate in which the necklace was created. When we look at the chain, we think of the House of World Cultures in Berlin, the so-called pregnant oyster, or the excitingly beautiful new church buildings in war-torn Cologne. The surface of the necklace, which bears the marks of the jewellery manufacturer Theodor Fahrner, is engraved with a delicate, ray-like striped pattern set with glittering Marcasitroses. A beautiful cultured pearl also shimmers in the center of the snail-like links. Working together, the delicate surface designs enhance the dynamic nature of the piece in an impressive way. The play of light and shadow, the structuring of the surface and the modernity of the design language are the themes of this piece of jewellery. Salesmen with large sample cases presented the innovations developed in Pforzheim to local jewellers every year. One such sample case full of unworn Fahrner jewellery had lain untouched in an attic for the last 40-plus years until it was offered to us. It contained samples of nearly every series from about 1919 until the company's dissolution in 1979, most marked with a model number or the "Original Fahrner" seal. The present brooch was part of this collection and is therefore unworn and perfectly preserved. We find in this necklace all the typical fine style features by which one can immediately recognize really good jewellery of the post-war period. Pieces like these show why the Fahrner company rightly enjoyed a worldwide reputation. Artist's jewellery from artist's hand! Fahrner jewellery is readily collected. Discover all the other Fahrner jewellery we offer at this site. A wonderful overview is provided by the catalogue "Theodor Fahrner. Schmuck zwischen Avantgarde und Tradition", edited by Brigitte Leonhardt and Dieter Zühlsdorff, Stuttgart 2005.

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