It was with silversmiths like Jan Brunk that Swedish silver art was carried into the 21st century.
Jan Brunk (1941–2005) himself began as early as the 1950s, when he trained as a silversmith's journeyman under Claës E. Giertta. This was followed by just over a decade with court jeweller C.F. Carlman before he opened his own studio in Södermalm, Stockholm, well into the 1970s.
As Stockholms Auktionsverk Magasin 5 now presents 36 works, his aesthetically restrained yet highly user-friendly corpus silver – it is a delight to have balloon whisks in silver in the kitchen! – is interspersed with jewellery of the highest order. Funnels and egg cups thus share space with rings and necklaces set with jasper and labradorite. The bottle with a granite lid is a quietly understated beauty, and what dessert would not taste better served with Jan Brunk's ice cream spoons in sterling silver?
Jan Brunk passed away far too young in 2005, but had by then paved the way for a new generation of silversmiths.
A warm welcome to Stockholms Auktionsverk Magasin 5 and the theme Jan Brunk!
