Vintage art glass for sale

Signed and labelled 1959 Vicke Lindstrand vase #2 for Kosta

Here's the larger of the two 'wine glass' shaped Lindstrand vases, the second of our bargain pieces from the 'back of the website.  This is the clear version.  Vase #1 can be found at: http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/15...

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Signed 1959 Vicke Lindstrand vase #1 for Kosta

When we first set up the website, nearly two years ago, Glen, who was working with us at the time, listed quite a lot of glass with just pictures and weights.  The pictures were from Pernilla's old camera, and weren't very good.  The int...

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Pair of stylish 1970s retro German vases from Walther

These are groovy bud vases from Walther of Germany. The company has been in existence in one form or another since 1879, so they know what they're doing. It's still in business today. “Walther-Glas” in Bad Driburg produces pressed dome...

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Mid-century Holmegaard ice bucket with wicker handle

This is a well-designed ice-bucket - it's big and heavy and has a woven handle (see close-up).  I was inspired to list this by my own experience with vintage Holmegaard tableware.  We have a Holmegaard water jug which holds nearly 5 litr...

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Pair of signed 1960s Vicke Lindstrand Kosta off-centre vases with bubbles

Here's a stylish set in full lead crystal from Kosta, designed by Vicke Lindstrand.  The vases are a variation of the off-centre design which he played with around this time - this was shown in the 1962-63 catalogue - and a large, carefully p...

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Signed 1970s Royal Krona set of 3 vases by Bengt Edenfalk

These are classic 1970s molded vases from Bengt Edenfalk.  Edenfalk, the inventor of the Thalatta technique, has had a long and distinguished career in glass design in Sweden, notably with Skruf and Kosta, and in more recent times as a free-l...

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Ove Sandeberg yellow lamp with clear protuberances for Kosta

We don't know too much about Ove Sandeberg, but he seems to have been something of a lamp specialist at Kosta in the 60s and 70s.  The only other pieces of Sandeberg that we've owned were also lamps. Vintage lamps are great - practical it...

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1960s Ann and Goran Warff for Kosta footed bowl signed unique

Here's a unique artwork - a collaboration by two of the great glass designers of modern times, from the early part of their career, about the time when they jointly won the Lunning Prize (1966), considered the Nobel prize of Scandinavian design.&n...

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Signed Olle Alberius 1970s gold Orrefors paperweight with champagne bubbles and window cutting

This piece has so much happening - gold, bubbles, and cut glass - that you need to look at lots of photos to understand it.  The bubbles in the middle, with the clever cutting (6 concave circles around the upper hemisphere) gives an optic eff...

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Pair of heavy signed Lindstrand paper weights with 'flames' of bubbles

Often pieces go on the website, then sell the same day, to the chagrin of customers who say, 'I would have liked that!"  We have quite a lot of people who have asked us to let them know when we are about to list 'something special'. ...

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