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Jens Hansen set up his first Nelson workshop in his and wife Gurli's home in Alton Street, Nelson in 1968. It moved to Hardy Street in 1970, and then to its current location three years later. Jens' eldest son
Halfdan Hansen runs the Jens Hansen workshop, which is known as Nelson's most established
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Jens' work always had a constant undercurrent of Danish architectural simplicity, but he liked to continually push the design boundaries. To mark the 40th
Anniversary of Jens Hansen in Nelson in 2008, specific designs were selected, whose form had endured and defied fashion, but that had not been
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may be Jens Hansen’s global legacy, evidence of his broader artistic impact on New
Zealand art and culture appear throughout the island nation. 'He introduced emerging jewelers and silversmiths to workshop methods and forms of modernism through the Danish lens,' Olsen told Polygon. In 2004, the
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added some of his early pieces to their permanent collection. Hansen also recruited and taught many next-generation jewelers and artists, through summer painting and sculpture classes at the local polytechnic, local workshop demonstrations, and offering bench space to any jeweler who asked".
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and only internationally acclaimed artisan jewellery workshop. Today, two qualified in-house jewellers Zane
Colegate and Simon Colegate re-create Jens' original designs and using modern jewellery making techniques design new Jens-inspired jewellery pieces.
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between 1962 and 1965. He also attended night courses at the School of
Applied Arts & Industrial design, Copenhagen. He married Gurli Winter in 1965 and they travelled to New Zealand together, and opened their first jewellery business in
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The Jens Hansen Legacy
Collection marks four decades of timeless design. The Legacy Collection is a selection of authentic designs recreated by hand from Jens' original production notes and includes classic experimental Jens pieces.
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His first workshop in Nelson was initially in the couple's own home in Alton Street. He then moved to Hardy Street in 1970, and then to its current corner Selwyn Place and
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Across his lifetime he exhibited widely in over 30 solo exhibitions, and participated in a large number of group exhibitions in New
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Home of The One Ring. The Jens Hansen The
Ringmaker Gold & Silversmith jewellery studio workshop at 320 Trafalgar Square, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand.
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made for decades. These were recreated as the Legacy Collection. Every year around the time of Jens' birthday, the collection expands.
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trilogy were computer generated in post-production. In
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