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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
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