Ted Noten, 1956, born in Tegelen / Nethelands. Artist that lives and works in Amsterdam. Studied at the Akademie for Applied Arts, Maastricht and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and has works at the following collections among others: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Museum for Art and Design, New York, CODA-Museum Apeldoorn, F.N.A.C., Paris, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Hiko Mizuno Jewellery College, Tokio, SM-s, museum for modern Art, s’Hertogenbosch, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Museum for Modern Art, Arnhem.
Since 2005, Dutch jewelry designer Ted Noten has broadened his repertoire to include furniture and art installations. His eponymous Amsterdam atelier (abbreviated ATN) is beloved worldwide for its wry and irreverent design objects. The four-person team has produced everything from a brass “self-portrait ring” to a brooch cast from a wad of chewing gum sent in by a client. Many of ATN’s designs subvert the appearance and context of luxury goods, like acrylic designer bags with treasures (pistols, lizards, rings) trapped inside.


Ted on his work:
Ted Noten is a Dutch jewellery designer that constantly explores the boundaries of his profession. Once a bricklayer and a psychiatric nurse, he graduated from the Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1990 and started working on an oeuvre that has certainly influenced the contemporary jewellery field. Noten has participated in a number of exhibitions worldwide, and a broad spectrum of galleries and museum collections now represent his oeuvre. Sawing up a Mercedes Benz car into brooches, sealing a little dead mouse wearing a tiny pearl necklace inside a block of acrylate: his work is never far from controversy. Still, Noten honours the specific qualities of jewellery design in which emotions, humour and small stories play the leading part. In 2008, Ted Noten will be awarded with the Francoise van den Bosch prize.