The Legacy Collection

The Legacy Collection: original Jens Hansen designs from the 1960s and 70s, remade

Jens Hansen created these designs in the 1960s and 70s, when Danish design was earning its reputation around the world. His work kept an undercurrent of Danish architectural simplicity, yet he kept pushing at its edges. Many of the forms outlasted the fashions around them but had not been made for decades.

In 2008, to mark 40 years of Jens Hansen in Nelson, we recreated a selection of them from the workshop’s original production notes. That Foundation Release started the Legacy Collection. Every July since, on Jens’s birthday, we have added another of his designs.

“These are heirloom pieces that demand to be worn, that have spirit and personality, that speak a language of strength.” Halfdan Hansen

What makes a piece Legacy

• Made to the original: each design is recreated from Jens’s own production notes and hand-crafted in our Nelson workshop.
• Hallmarked and numbered: every piece bears the special edition anniversary hallmark and a unique serial number.
• With its history: it comes with a copy of its original workshop production card, some showing Jens’s handwritten calculations.
• Your choice of metal and stone: made to order in sterling silver, 9ct to 22ct yellow, red or white gold, or platinum, with a choice of gemstone on stone-set designs.

How Legacy pieces are named

Each name gives the release year and Jens’s original design reference: “2008 Legacy Ring 60” is design 60 from the 2008 Foundation Release. The collection covers rings, earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets, bangles, brooches and cufflinks.

See the collection in person at our Trafalgar Square workshop in Nelson, or order here. For more of Jens’s design language, browse Classic Jens Hansen rings or the full Classic Jens Hansen range.