Ted Muehling
TED MUEHLING
A Life in Form and Feeling
For fifty years, Ted Muehling has created jewelry and decorative objects of remarkable beauty, balance and precision. Inspired by shells, seeds, branches, insects, stones and other natural forms, his work transforms the familiar into something newly observed.
Working with precious metals, pearls, gemstones, porcelain, glass and bronze, Muehling has developed a language entirely his own: sculptural yet intimate, refined yet deeply connected to the natural world.
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THE NATURAL WORLD
Nature, Transformed
Ted Muehling’s jewelry begins with observation.
A rice grain becomes a necklace. An olive branch becomes a bracelet. The curve of a shell, the structure of an insect wing or the surface of a seed pod may become an earring, ring or brooch.
These references are never simply copied. They are distilled through proportion, material and the movement of the body. The resulting pieces feel both organic and exact, created to be worn, handled and lived with over time.
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COLLABORATION & CRAFT
Objects of Lasting Form
Muehling’s creative world extends beyond jewelry into porcelain, glass, silver and bronze.
His collaborations with Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg, E.R. Butler & Co. and J. & L. Lobmeyr bring his distinctive understanding of form to vessels, candlesticks, tableware and decorative objects.
These partnerships unite Muehling’s New York design sensibility with generations of specialist European and American craftsmanship.
Of particular note are the Biedermeier candlesticks created with E.R. Butler & Co. Elegant and architectural, they reinterpret a historic form through Muehling’s distinctive sense of proportion, surface and restraint.
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THE BON TON SELECTION
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BON TON goods presents an extensive Scandinavian selection of Ted Muehling jewelry and objects, including sterling silver and gold jewelry, pearl pieces, sculptural vessels, candlesticks and porcelain.
The collection reflects the breadth of Muehling’s work while remaining grounded in the qualities that make it unmistakably his: proportion, restraint, material integrity and an enduring fascination with nature.
ATELIER & EXPERIENCE
A Personal Connection
Our relationship with Ted Muehling’s work is also rooted in experience.
Before establishing his own jewelry practice, BON TON co-founder Mikkel Brøgger worked in Ted Muehling’s New York atelier. There, he encountered an exacting approach to craftsmanship in which every curve, surface and proportion mattered.
That understanding continues to inform how BON TON selects and presents Ted Muehling’s work today.
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