Jablonec '68

The 1st International Silver Jewelry Symposium brought seventeen artists from East and West together in the then Czechoslovak town of Jablonec nad Nisou- including Anton Cepka, Bruno Martinazzi, Elisabeth Kodr-Defner and Helfried Kodr, Jaroslav Kodej, Josef Symon, and Hermann Jnger, who today are regarded as the founders of studio jewelry.

This publication celebrates the fifty-year anniversary of the symposium as a milestone in the history of studio jewelry and the beginning of an unprecedented international network. Alongside illuminating articles it contains the personal travel diary of Othmar Zschaler as well as a reprint of the limited edition 1968 exhibition catalogue.