Word: handwrought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chassis & Chalices. The green-eyed descendant of a long line of Swedish musicians, painters and architects, Torun began her career at a Stockholm school of industrial arts, where she fashioned everything from parts of automobile chassis to handwrought silver chalices. Drawn to Paris, she set up shop in a cheap Left Bank hotel, developed the technique that she has followed fairly consistently ever since. Not wishing to disturb her fellow tenants by hammering, she would draw and file her silver strips until they could be bent and twisted and hooked into graceful designs...