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Scandinavian Ceramics and Glass 1940s to 1980s
Scandinavian Glass: Creative Energies

Scandinavian Glass – from The Glass Encyclopedia

A short explanation of Scandinavian Glass:
Scandinavia consists of four countries to the North West of Europe, namely Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Scandinavian Glass was not widely known until the 1920's, when glass designers, especially in Sweden started a movement to bring high design standards to mass-produced glassware.

The great Orrefors glass-works led the way and designers like Simon Gate and Edward Hald developed techniques like Graal glass and Ariel glass, Sven Palmquist developed Ravenna glass, and Vicke Lindstrand contributed to these designs for Orrefors from 1928 to 1941.

Other Swedish glassworks such as Flygsfors and Kosta produced some brilliant designs this century. Paul Kedelv had a studio at Flygsfors in the 1950's where he produced his Coquelle series of sculptured vessels like the one pictured above left. Flygsfors was an old Swedish glassworks founded in 1888 which was later taken over by Orrefors (in the 1970's) and closed in 1980. Vicke Lindstrand designed for Orrefors in the 1930's, worked for Upsala-Ekeby until 1950, and during the 1950's and 60's he designed some beautiful glass pieces for Kosta, the oldest glassworks in Sweden (founded 1742).
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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