A PAIR OF DANISH FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

A contemporary of Georg Jensen, Nielsen was a designer and craftsman who trained as a steel engraver. He travelled in France and Germany before returning to Copenhagen to open his first workshop, producing pieces in the Art Nouveau style. Nielsen’s unique and opulent designs were instrumental in spreading Denmark’s Skønvirke style, 'Aesthetic Work', which was comparable to Britain’s Arts & Crafts style and earned him the appointment as Master of the Goldsmiths' Guild in 1918, a position he held for thirty years. After his death in 1958, the workshop was taken over by his son Bjarne Weimar (1906–1988) until 1970. Today the company is run by Gregers Holt.