Ted noten biography

Ted Noten’s designs act as a critique on contemporary life and on the history of jewellery, as well as on the wider context of product design. Interestingly, his work equally relates to art and architecture. The underlying, recurring, theme of his work is to challenge convention and processes of habituation, the familiar and the unusual.  

In recent years Ted Noten has created work for private collectors, local councils, art institutions etc. A broad spectrum of galleries and museum collections now represent his oeuvre. The designer initiated some of these projects, only to be adopted later by a museum, as was the case for example with ‘Chew your own brooch’. With a little help from the chewing gum he hands out, everybody can become a jewellery designer; simply by chewing the gooey substance into a shape the craftsmanthen casts either in silver, bronze or gold. One of the events at which Noten manifested himself with this project was an o