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Jorma Laine’s designs often make the viewer smile, think or marvel.
Beginning in the 1960s, Jorma Laine established himself as one of Finland’s most talented jewelry designers. Laine worked extensively with the regarded manufacturing firms of Kultateollisuus Ky and later Turun Hopea in the 1970s. While he worked in silver, gold and bronze, Laine is best known for his bronze creations, which reflect an exciting new creative impulse, spurred by the relative inexpensiveness of this material.
Executed with true craftsmanship and a skilled sense of playfulness, his pieces are often little worlds unto themselves. Travellers on a Viking ship, a smile inducing “Mörökölli” (or “grouch”), or simply intricate abstractions, Laine’s designs are at once cerebral and appeal to the highest standards of design.
His special gold shining bronze pieces, an unusual technique for Europe at the time but much more common in the orient, reflect an interest in other cultures. In this techique the bronze piece has acid treated, "yellow fired ": and the result is yellow or gold shining bronze.
Combining a forward-thinking modernist impulse, a decidedly “Finnish” nostalgia for the past, and a wry sense of humor, Laine’s individuality and design has stood the test of time.
Size: Height 3.8 cm, diameter of the " Face " 2.7 cm , lenght of the chain 40 cm
Hallmarks: Back of the " Face ": Jorma Laine, Finland and on the shackle: maker´s mark ( = Turun Hopea ), 830 ( = silver purity ), A ( = Turku city ), U7 ( = made in the year 1973 )
Condition: Not used, near mint condition.
CONDITION RATINGS:
MINT – New one, in the same condition as when it left the store. Very few vintage and antique items can claim this
NEAR MINT – No problems, as close to “new” as possible for age.
EXCELLENT – Shows normal wear expected for age, but nothing easily visible
VERY GOOD – Shows normal wear expected for age with some minor problems visible , but problems will not detract
GOOD - Has some definite visual problems. Structure is intact. Problems could be fixed
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