1920's Danish Just Andersen Art Deco vase in Disco Metal 
 
The vase is in good vintage condition and made of disco metal, a metal mixture invented by Just Andersen by combining lead and antimony in a mixture he keept as a seecret and named after the Disco bay in Greenland where he spent his childhood. The Disco metal is rather heavy and still has the original dark patina. 
 
Just Andersen 1884-1943 was born in Godhavn on the Disko island, which is located on the west side of Greenland. His parents were inspector and probate manager in North Greenland. Just Andersens creative gene was quite obviously stimulated and developed during his childhood. Through his parents' business he grew up with a view of the world, and in contact with researchers and explorers who were later famous and inscribed in the history of their exploration and records of Greenland among them the famous explorers Robert Edwin Peary and Knud Rasmussen.
 
Just Andersen was a very creative multi talentet man with a wealth of initiative. After he finished his studies at first the Danish Royal Academy of Art and after that The School of Danish Crafts in 1912 he designed works for the world famous Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. In in 1918 he established himself with his own silversmith business "Just Andersen" that over the next almost 40 years produced a huge variety of decorative pieces.