Partnership info
Overview
- Type
- Product Collaboration
- Year
- 2025
Georg Jensen founded his silversmithing house in Copenhagen in 1904, arriving at the craft by way of sculpture rather than metalwork — he'd trained to shape bodies and faces before he ever picked up silver. That background showed in everything that followed: he spent his career refusing the ornament-heavy conventions of the trade in favor of organic forms lifted straight from nature, a conviction so persuasive that by the time he died in 1935, the New York Herald Tribune was calling him the greatest silversmith of the last three hundred years. The house has held to that same premise for more than a century since — nature translated into hard material, never the other way around.
The Partnership
Wearstler has always treated nature as working material rather than backdrop — water, wind, the specific light of the California coast all eventually find their way into an object instead of staying scenery. Metal has never been the obvious place to put that instinct, mostly because metal doesn't move. Georg Jensen had already spent a century proving otherwise: founded in 1904 by a silversmith who'd trained as a sculptor first and spent his career rejecting ornament for its own sake in favor of forms borrowed directly from nature — the same premise Wearstler works from, just a century older.
In 2019, the Danish silversmith invited her to test that shared instinct against a material of her own. Frequency, a six-piece collection, set out to prove stainless steel could hold the same restlessness as the ocean it was modeled on. That instinct was already halfway to being hers before she ever picked up the brief.
The Partnership
Frequency runs on a single motif — an undulating steel ribbon — repeated across a statement vase, two hurricanes with hand-blown glass candle inserts, two display bowls, and a centerpiece built to anchor a table indoors or out. The steel catches light the way water does, throwing it back in movement rather than a flat gleam, the folds engineered specifically to read as motion rather than decoration.
There is an energy in the silhouettes, a vibrant movement that comes to life through the beautiful folds in the steel. Each design is like a sculptural conductor of this living energy.
