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You grow up being a Scandinavian, of course, you're going to be influenced by your own cultural heritage.

So there is that, that Viking inheritance and...

Definitely.

And that sort of purity, that simplicity of style isn't there it's very

scandinavian i mean almost everything my mom has made has this very scandinavian simple clean lines

welcome to if jewels could talk i'm carrollton the, an author, broadcaster, and the woman who initiated the role of Jewelry editor at magazines like Tapler and British Vogue.

This is a podcast for everyone. For people who do like jewelry, for people who don't realize they like jewelry, and anyone intrigued by fascinating facts, new ideas, and forgotten histories.

So please join me as I tell sparkly tales, meeting all sorts of people,

delving into four centuries of jewelry culture and investigate what's happening now.

Thank you. culture and investigate what's happening now. I'm delighted to be talking today about a designer who has fascinated me from the first

moment I saw one of her deceptively simple spiraling silver jewels that seems so modern and alive and expressive. The Swedish designer

Viviana Torren Boulof Ube was born in 1927 and she was a groundbreaking woman in every aspect

of her life. First of all, she started an altogether different style and jewelry, simple silver jewelry

set with beech stones,

with a purity of form. She was a fiercely independent feminist who had passionate love affairs

and marriages. She was someone who only ever really wanted to be in her workshop, creating things,

who became a global legend. She was a very early advocate of diversity and inclusion.

And she was the winner of the Frederick Lunning Prize,

which is basically the Nobel Prize for Arts and Crafts.

It's the highest honour a craftsperson can have.

And she's always been slightly enigmatic to me as well as fascinating.

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