Ted Noten was born in 1956 in Tegelen, the Netherlands. He was a bricklayer, a nurse in a psychiatric hospital and a traveller prior to studying at the Academy for Applied Arts in Maastricht, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and becoming a senior Research Fellow at the School of Jewellery at Birmingham City University, England. Ted is now an internationally renowned Amsterdam-based jewellery designer whose work has been exhibited and purchased for public and private collections all over the world, including at the Museum for Arts and Design of NYC, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch,  Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam and Gallery Deux Poissons in Tokyo, amongst others. He has been awarded with the Françoise van den Bosch Prize in 2008, the Harrie Tillie Award from the Amsterdam Fund of the Arts in 2003 and his Tiara design for Dutch Crown princes Maxima won the first prize in 2002. In 2006 his monograph CH2=C(CH3)C(=O)OCH3 and other TN's published by 010 won Best Dutch Book Designs. Since 2005, Atelier Ted Noten has extended its exclusive jewellery creations towards (interior) design projects, installations and commissions for both private collectors, cultural organisations and art institutions.