# Jens Risom artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jens-risom/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:12:44.911Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Danish-American
- Movements: Mid-century modern design, Scandinavian design in the United States
- Common media: Furniture design

## Portrait

![Jens Risom](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Craftsman%27s_World_Jens_Risom-42.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Craftsman%27s_World_Jens_Risom-42.jpg

## About Jens Risom

Jens Risom (1916–2016) was a Danish-American furniture designer associated with mid-century modern and Scandinavian design in the United States. Authority records from Wikidata and VIAF consistently identify his profession, life years, and Danish-American background. Public reference material describes him as an early contributor to the introduction of Scandinavian design in the American market. Collectors encounter Risom primarily through furniture and other design objects offered under his name, rather than through conventional fine-art categories such as painting or sculpture. His relevance to an artist and designer index therefore rests on both his documented identity and the auction records connected with attributed examples of his work. The collected evidence establishes the broad biographical and design context reliably, although it does not contain enough model-level detail to identify particular designs, manufacturers, production periods, or materials. Those object-specific details should be established from the individual piece and its cataloguing before selecting comparables.

## Common works and media

Furniture is the principal work type supported by the collected identity and auction-page evidence. The source pack does not provide enough object-level documentation to name particular chair, table, storage, or seating models, manufacturers, materials, editions, or production periods with confidence. Individual works should therefore be described from their physical characteristics, labels, documentation, and auction cataloguing rather than assigned to a specific Risom design from this profile alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraising an object offered as a Jens Risom design begins with confirming that its attribution corresponds to the Danish-American furniture designer documented by public authority records. Relevant comparisons should then come from public auction records catalogued under his name, with close attention to each record's sale date, realized price, and lot description. The present source pack confirms a meaningful auction-record signal but does not expose detailed comparable lots. It therefore cannot support a price prediction or claims about particular models, manufacturers, production dates, materials, editions, rarity, condition, provenance, or market direction. Those characteristics require object-level evidence and like-for-like auction comparisons.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context, including sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q773592
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/266320008/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500253380
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/22579
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Risom
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jens-risom/