EFVA
ATTLING
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Efva
Attling (b. 1952) made her first piece of jewellery at the
age of 11. At 16 she became a pupil of one of Sweden's foremost
silver-smiths. After a 12-year career modeling for Eileen
Ford, she worked as a singer and song-writer before she returning
to the world of design. She has produced clothes for Levi's
and H&M and since 1996 has been designing jewellery for
her own Efva Attling Stockholm brand.
AMOUR VINCIT OMNIA is her first collection for Orrefors.
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LENA
BERGSTROM
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Lena
Bergström (b. 1961) is a successful designer of both textiles
and glass. She has received numerous public commissions and
has won Excellent Swedish Design awards for six of her glass
collections, among them Squeeze and Puck.
Lena received her artistic education at the College of Arts,
Crafts and Design in Stockholm before coming to Orrefors to
participate in a design project during 1993-94 – she was
captivated by glass and has been affiliated to Orrefors since
1994.
She has an unerring sense of design; her work, soft of line
yet graphically eloquent, represents a new generation of expression.
Cyrano, Roma, Lightstones, Wa, Pastill and Sopranos are typical
exponents of her art. Her most recent production includes the
Colore vases, the black-and-white Pingvin, and Calypso, which
is a refinement of Orrefors’ famous Fuga technique. |
GUNNAR
CYREN
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Born
in 1931. Studied metallurgy at the Swedish State School of Arts,
Crafts and Design in Stockholm and is a certified silver and
goldsmith. Came to Orrefors in 1959. Represented at the National
Museum in Stockholm, the R�hss Museum of Arts and Crafts in
Gothenburg, the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY, and
the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
"I have sat with glass on my knee throughout my adult life.
It's hard to imagine what 1 would have done otherwise.
"That hot, yellow dough that becomes so clear and pure
when it has hardened - for more than thirty years it's been
the most natural material for me to fantasize with. I still
try every day to achieve a little bit of everything I'd like
to see finished. Thick or thin, transparent or opaque, plain
glass or colored? There's always some untried variant.
"Tomorrow I'll do what I didn't get round to today. That's
pretty good, isn't it?" |
LARS
HELLSTEN
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Lars
Hellsten (b. 1933) studied sculpture at the College of Arts,
Crafts and Design in Stockholm before coming to Orrefors in
1972. Besides Eden, a service inspired by nature, he is also
the designer behind such collections as Corona, Odyssey, Neptunus
and the heart-shaped Amour and My Heart.
Nature clearly inspires his art glass, too, including many grand
pieces well suited to public spaces. His glass is characteristically
massive and forceful, whether it be cast, mould-blown or free-blown.
He will be celebrating his seventieth birthday and more than
thirty years at Orrefors with a large retrospective exhibition
at the Orrefors Exhibition Hall between May and September, 2003. |
JAN
JOHANSSON
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Jan
Johansson (born 1942) came to Orrefors in 1969 after training
as a silversmith in Stockholm at the College of Arts, Crafts
and Design. As an artist, he is interested in refining the optical
effects of pure, sculptural crystal, as in his cut-glass Cascade,
Horizon and Marin series.
Cut crystal sculptures set on a solid marble stand are an important
component of his art glass production. Jan Johansson has actively
sought new means of expression and has broadened the range of
the Fuga technique.
One of his more recent successes is the Balans series, which,
with its drop-shaped stem, lends balance both to the design
and the hand. |
HELEN
KRANTZ
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Helén
Krantz (b. 1953) studied glass and ceramics at the College of
Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Her interest in glass
deepened during a scholarship year at Orrefors in 1986, and
two years later she began her career as a designer.
Helén Krantz often works with patterns of small images
to give the glass what she terms “rhythm”. She has
worked in the Graal and Ariel art glass techniques and has also
developed a technique of her own: Airpocket, a refinement of
the venerable Ariel technique.
Examples of her contributions to the collection are her Zaza,
Cruise, Quartet, New Corner and Excess series. |
ERIKA
LAGERBIELKE
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After
studies in industrial design at the College of Arts, Crafts
and Design in Stockholm, Erika Lagerbielke (b. 1960) brought
her special talents to Orrefors in 1982. Now, for two decades,
she has designed glass for Orrefors that has won praise from
critics and customers alike. Among her major artistic successes
are her Intermezzo, Merlot and Difference tableware, which have
all won an Excellent Swedish Design award. Intermezzo has also
received an International Tabletop Award and is one of Orrefors?
best-selling services.
Colour and cut detail are characteristic of Erika Lagerbielke?s
design, both in art glass and in the pieces she produces for
the Orrefors collection.
Her track record lists such classics as Lancelot, Zodiak and
Rosebud. Of her new products, Ceremony a set of festive glasses
with prodigiously long stems, is especially worthy of note. |
ANNE
NILSSON
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Born
in 1953. Studied ceramics and design at the Dickinson College
in Pennsylvania, USA, and glass and ceramics at the Swedish
State School of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. After
having worked a few years as a designer at H�gan�s Ceramics,
she came to Orrefors in 1982. Represented at the National Museum
in Stockholm.
"Hovering between extremes, and combining them in beautiful
harmony. Hot and cold, soft and hard, transparent and colored
traditional and innovative, artistic and functional.
"Expressing myself through the medium of glass - that's
the basis of my artistic work. My own work is part of it. Together,
in the team, we form a whole." |
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MARTTI
RYTKOENEN
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Martti
Rytkönen (b. 1960) studied glass and ceramics at the
College of Arts, Crafts and Design, although it was glass
that eventually captured his heart. He came to Orrefors on
a scholarship and was taken on at the glassworks in 1994.
Pure, clear crystal is his imaginative medium of choice, one
which he cuts, etches, sandblasts and engraves to bring forth
new graphical motives and effects; but he also works with
colour, employing art glass techniques such as Graal, Ariel
and Ravenna. His motives are often narrative and full of humour.
Martti is the designer behind – among others –
the massive Sigma, Avenue and Scala series; and, too, Papillon,
whose outstretched wings float above the tabletop. This year’s
new pieces include Galaxy and Samba.
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PER
B.SUNDBERG
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Per
B. Sundberg (b. 1964) has an unusual background, at least among
Orrefors designers, having gained personal experience of the
glassblower’s craft in a studio environment. He trained
at Capellagården on the island of Öland and at the
College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He was taken
on at Orrefors in 1994 on the strength of his achievements during
a special project.
Per B. Sundberg’s glass brings dynamism and verve to Orrefors,
contrasting sharply with the more austere, classic elegance
of the designs produced by his colleagues. His idiom is sculptural,
with forms that are often close to the organic.
At Orrefors, he has developed his own technique, Fabula, a refinement
of the classic Graal. Among his contributions to the collection
are the Pipe series, with its functional bowls and pitchers
for the modern kitchen, the Starfish votives, and the metallically
mottled Earth. For 2003, he gives us Bop, a lively series of
bowls and vases rendered in soft shades of pastel. |
INGEGERD
RAMAN
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Ingegerd
Råman (b. 1943) is one of Sweden’s most renowned
designers of glass. After graduating from the College of Arts,
Crafts and Design in Stockholm, she worked for many years as
a designer of ceramics – she ran her own studio –
and as a glass designer, first at Johansfors, later at Skruf.
Over the years, Ingegerd Råman has received numerous awards
for her work, and in 1995 was awarded a Swedish government professor’s
title. In 1999, Ingegerd joined the talented team of artists
at Orrefors.
Her collection for Orrefors includes Skyline, Slowfox and Undercover,
all three of which are characterised by the purity of line and
functionality that mark her approach to design.
For 2003, Ingegerd Råman presents a range of new pieces,
including the Pond dishes, the I Ching vase and bowl series,
and Savann. |
GUNILLA
ALLARD
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Gunilla
Allard's approach to design - she is one of Sweden's foremost
designers of fine furniture - is ideally suited to the Orrefors
brand. Born in 1957, she was trained in interior design at the
College of Arts, Crafts and Design (1983-88) and the Copenhagen
Academy of Fine Arts.
She has also worked as a set designer and has helped in the
production of several Swedish and foreign films, including Ingmar
Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. Gunilla Allard has won any number
of awards for her furniture design, including the prestigious
Georg Jensen and Bruno Mathsson awards.
Since spring 2002 she has been working for Orrefors on a freelance
basis. Stella, her first series, is a set of glasses in contemporary
taste with an elegant frosted edge. |
MALIN
LINDAHL
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An
innovative approach to established techniques characterises
Orrefors’ new design talent, Malin Lindahl (b. 1973).
After studies at the College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm,
Malin Lindahl came to Orrefors on a scholarship in 1999 and
has been affiliated to the glassworks since the spring of 2002.
The lustre of clear crystal, its transparency and infinite potential
for optical surprises, is what originally drew her to glass.
During her first year at Orrefors, she has looked backwards
in time, probing the history of the glassworks and Swedish folk
art. In her new Dizzy Diamond vases, she explores the classic
optic technique to produce a set of functional, decorative vases
with more than a hint of luxury. |
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