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From the 1920s, a succession of highly talented designers
turned around Kosta Boda.
the fortunes of the ailing Kosta glassworks and gained
international renown for the company, Swedish glass, and Scandinavian design.
Kosta's renaissance began with Elis Bergh (1881-1954), who
was the company's art director from 1929. It was given a further boost when
designer Vicke Lindstrand (1904-83) joined the company in 1950.
He subsequently
produced a huge body of designs, both for art glass and domestic ware
. Lindstrand's heavy, blown, clear- cased pieces came to epitomize the Scandinavian style that enjoyed such success in the 1950s. Shapes tended to be simple and thick walled, with curvilinear organic forms, relying on the clarity and quality of the clear glass and subtle use of colour for effect.
Internal decoration included spiralled and vertical stripes, threading, and the trapped-air Graal and Ariel techniques that were initially exclusive to Orrefors and Kosta. Many designs incorporated
Kosta Boda Glass |
. Lindstrand's heavy, blown, clear- cased pieces came to epitomize the Scandinavian style that enjoyed such success in the 1950s. Shapes tended to be simple and thick walled, with curvilinear organic forms, relying on the clarity and quality of the clear glass and subtle use of colour for effect.
Internal decoration included spiralled and vertical stripes, threading, and the trapped-air Graal and Ariel techniques that were initially exclusive to Orrefors and Kosta. Many designs incorporated
patterns of internal bubbles.
Any obvious distortion or misalignment may mean that the piece was originally a second.
Any obvious distortion or misalignment may mean that the piece was originally a second.
At the same time, the sculptor Erik Hoglund (1932-2001)
redefined the image of the Boda glassworks with his radical new designs for
blown glass in a collaboration that lasted from 1953 to 1973.
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Venini-trained Mona Morales-Schildt (1908-99) joined Kosta
in 1958, introducing a southern European influence that showed in her Ventana
range of vases with thick, clear casing over colour and optical cutting.
Five
years later, Bertil Vallien 1938), who had studied in the United States,
joined Afors and created a series of designs -
mostly in clear glass - that earned him a place in the pantheon of 20th-century
Swedish glass designers.
LINDSTRA The talents of the Swedish designer Vicke Lindstrand were
matched only by hismusician - he played the church organ - and had worked as a newspaper editor
and book illustrator before turning his talents to designing glass, ceramics,
and textiles.
At Orrefors and Kosta, his rich artistic background made tiim equally at home with figurative and abstract esigns, one-off studio pieces, domestic glassware, d sculpture, creating both small-scale pieces and e complex structures for public spaces. |
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