Georg Jensen Inc. was a gift and department store known for Scandinavian imports located in midtown Manhattan at 667 Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street from 1935–1968.
The firm distributed a glossy yearly mail-order catalog illustrated with museum-quality photographs, starting in 1936.
[2] The Battle of the Atlantic cut off imports starting in 1939 prompting Jensen's, a major importer from Europe, to cultivate North American artisans, some of whom had emigrated from Europe, and fill their shelves with quality goods: silver jewelry, turned wood, art enamel, tiles and ceramics, lamps.
[4] Georg Jensen Inc. expanded in 1966, establishing a separate furniture showroom in Manhattan and satellite stores in Manhasset and Scarsdale, New York and in Milburn and Paramus, New Jersey.
[7] The yearly illustrated mail-order catalogs published by Georg Jensen Inc from 1936 offer the designs of many famous artists, including Georg Jensen, Jens Risom,[8] Dorothy Thorpe, enamelists H. Edward Winter and Karl Drerup, and Carol Janeway,[9] silversmiths Madeleine Turner, Jo Pol, LaPaglia, wood turner Otto Christiansen, among others.