Jakob Bengel was a chain and costume jewelry factory, founded by Jakob Bengel in 1873 in Idar-Oberstein, Germany.
In the 1920s and 1930s, it became one of the leading manufacturers of fashion jewelry in the Art Deco style.
[1] It was during the Bauhaus and Art Deco period that designers were looking to obtain new materials and inspiration to produce costume jewelry.
[2] Inspired by French Avant-Garde and other fashion trendsetters such as Coco Chanel, Bengel started to produce experimental jewelry.
The pieces, catalogued 1924–1939, combined brass and chrome with geometric shapes of colored galalith.