Gine Sommerfelt
1939At the age of 15, Gine Sommerfelt left home to become an apprentice at the goldsmithing firm J. Tostrup in Oslo. After receiving her journeyman certificate, she went to New York in 1960, working as a trainee designer at Oneida Ltd. for 18 months. Sommerfelt then returned to Oslo in 1962 and was hired as a designer at J. Tostrup. In 1964 she set up her own shop. Her jewellery pieces from the 1960s and ’70s are characterised by a refined sense of form, often inspired by geometrical shapes in a typically Scandinavian manner. When designing her early jewellery, she tended to pay attention to contemporary fashion and the sensibilities of youth culture. In recent years, Sommerfelt has designed jewellery using trilobites and other fossils.
15歳で家族の元を離れ、オスロのJ.Tostrup社で金細工 の見習いとして働きはじめたギーネ・ソンメルフェルト。職 人としての認定を受けた後、1960年にニューヨークに渡 り、1年半に渡りONEIDA Ltd.社でデザイナー研修生として働き、64年に自身のスタジオを設立します。60〜70 年代における彼女の作品の特徴は、北欧スタイルを踏襲 しながらも、幾何学形状から発想を得た新鮮なフォルムに あります。初期の作品は現代ファッションを意識しながら、若さ溢れるものが多かったのですが、近年は三葉虫をはじ めとした化石をモチーフとして使うようにもなっています。
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