Very beautiful bronze necklace in modernist brutalist style by the Finnish designer Pentti Sarpaneva. The pendant resembles melting icicles. The pendant is approx. 8 cm long and 5 cm wide. The chain is about 62 cm long.
The necklace is clearly stamped P. Sarpaneva and Finland.
The necklace is probably from the 1960s-70s.
Pentti Sarpaneva: Pentti Akseli Sarpaneva (4 June 1925 Tampere – 10 July 1978 Turku) was a Finnish jewelry designer and designer. From the 1950s he specialized in jewelery that people could afford. Sarpaneva also designed decorative and functional objects.
Sarpaneva was born in Tampere. After participating in the Second World War, he graduated from the Helsinki Normal High School in 1946. He studied metal art and graphic design not only at the Finnish Academy of Art, but also at the Institute of Art and Industry.
Sarpeneva's jewelry was originally handmade at home with an enamel surface and made from recycled materials. Later, jewelry began to be made by casting as industrially manufactured jewelry sets. Gold, silver and bronze were used as manufacturing materials.
Sarpaneva began her design career in the studio that was established in connection with Merkkikeskus Sorsa in the early 1960s. In the mid-1960s he began collaborating with Kalevala Jewelry and later in 1967 he became an artistic designer for Turku Hopea Oy, where he worked as an artistic director until his death.
There have been hardly any newspaper articles about him. He has stayed out of the public eye as a person and designer and has been in the shadow of his better-known younger brother Timo Sarpaneva, who was a designer and glass artist at, among others, Iittala and received the title of professor.
