Theodor Fahrner Jewellery - During those two great periods of style, Art Nouveau and Art Deco, Theodor Fahrner of Pforzheim was one of the most interesting and innovative jewellery producers in Europe.
Theodor Fahrner Jr. was one of the first jewellery manufacturers in Germany and at the end of the 19th Century he commissioned free-lance artists to create modern jewellery designs, with artists from the most important centres of Munich, Darmstadt, Stuttgart and Dresden willing to collaborate with him.

The successful result was the prominence of his Art Nouveau and Jugendstil "designer jewellery" in the first decade of the 20th Century.

After his death in 1919 his successor Gustav Braendle took over the firm whilst retaining the name of "Fahrnerschmuck" (Fahrner Jewellery).

In the 1920s and 1930s extravagant jewellery in the international Art Deco style was produced with designers such as the Viennese painter Anton KIing defining the style of "Fahrner Artist Jewellery" with their creations.

In the 1960s and 1970s the firm continuing creating jewellery in both traditional and the "modern" style with the firm finally closing it's doors in 1979.