A DANISH BOX, GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, POST 1945 designed by Sigvard Bernadotte circa 1950, square with rounded corners, lid with drop-ring handle, underside with Jensen mark, No. 969, DENMARK / STERLING and stamped in script Sigvard 10.cm wide, 349gr Sigvard Oscar Fredrik Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (1907-2002) was the second son of King Gustav Adolf VI of Sweden. One of Scandinavia's pioneering industrial designers, his firm Bernadotte and Bjorn, later the Bernadotte Design Studio, was responsible for a number of significant industrial products ranging from kitchen equipment to tractors. Bernadotte first produced designs for Jensen in 1931 and continued to do so over a 50-year period. He was perhaps the first designer at the Copenhagen firm to work completely in the modernist style, acknowledging that his work was a reaction against the decorated styles of Jensen and Rohde.