Theo Fabergé
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Theo Fabergé was the grandson of Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Karl Fabergé also known as Karl Gustavovich Fabergé in Russia was a Russian jeweller of Baltic German-Danish and French origin, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs, made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials.-Early...

. His father Nicholas Fabergé, Carl’s youngest son, arrived in London
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 in 1906 to help run the only branch of ‘The House of Fabergé’ outside Russia
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, in Dover Street, London. After 1917 Nicholas remained in London and in 1922 his son, Theo Fabergé was born.
From an early age Theo Fabergé had a passion for making objects of a highly crafted standard. A fascination with the natural beauties of wood led Theo to explore the techniques of ornamental turning
Ornamental turning
Ornamental turning is a type of turning, a craft that involves cutting of a work mounted in a lathe. The work can be made of any material that is suitable for being cut in this way, such as wood, bone, ivory or metal. Plain turning is work executed on a lathe where a transverse section through any...

, the art of deep-cut engraving and sculpting woods, ivories and metals using precision lathes. He restored a Holtzappfel lathe originating from 1861, and in the 1950s began to design and make elegant objets d’art from rare wood and ivory, for pleasure and then as commissions.

Theo soon began to receive commissions from notable collectors of Carl Fabergé, and from museums such as the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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, United States
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. In 1984, Theo was persuaded to produce a Collection to be sold on the international market incorporating precious metals, crystal, enamelling, stone-carving, precious gems and porcelain. The St Petersburg Collection was launched to the public at Marshall Fields, Chicago
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 in 1985.
Theo’s Fabergé’s daughter, Sarah Fabergé launched her first designs for the St Petersburg Collection in 1994.

Theo and his daughter Sarah Fabergé have worked on a variety of commissions from the White House Egg for the United States President, to the Brotherhood Egg for Boys’ Town.
At the time of the establishment of St Petersburg Collection, HRH The Duke of Gloucester
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
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 admired Theo’s work at The Art of the Master Turner’ exhibition at the Science Museum in London. HRH Princess Alexandra, The Hon Lady Ogilvy
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 received Theo’s Presentation Golden Egg. HRH The Duke of York
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 came aboard the vessel Sthtandart in 1999 when it arrived in the Pool of London bearing the oak for Theo’s Sthtandart eggs. The Duke and Duchess of York
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 commissioned the Hole in One Egg in aid of a children’s charity. In 2003, Theo was commissioned by the Royal Air Force
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 to produce their commemorative piece for the centenary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, the first being presented to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
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.
The Collection is shown in major outlets throughout the world. Eminent museums such as the State Hermitage Museum, the San Diego Fine Arts Museum and the St Petersburg City Museum have catalogued Theo Fabergé‘s creations within their collections.

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