Vintage art glass for sale

Ice blue Per Lutken Holmegaard set of ice buckets and bowl with handles

This, to me, is what the best of modernist design is about - simple, practical, pieces which you can either use in your home and/or put on display as a feature.  You certainly don't need to hide them away in a cupboard.  Two of these...

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Pair of 1950s Vicke Lindstrand Kosta vases with purple swirl lines

It seems a long time since I wrote about sets, so for the benefit of those new to buying art glass, let me do so here.  In my view, a set of matching pieces is inherently more beautiful, harder to find, and therefore more valuable than a sing...

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Signed Ann Warff 1970s Kosta 'crystal rock' paperweight

This piece is from the 1970s. It takes an idea used in other Warff pieces (the polished window that allows us to peek into this piece is also seen in http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2398 and others) and gives it a smart new twi...

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Signed Sven Palmqvist 1960 sommerso vase for Orrefors

This simple, classic Palmqvist design is shown in the 1960 Orrefors catalogue.  It is signed and bears an Orrefors label.  Other Palmqvist pieces are shown at: http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/search/palmqvist Height: 22cm Wid...

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Vicke Lindstrand Kosta 'carved' bowl

This is the second Lindstrand 'carved' bowl that I promised.  The last picture shows the two together.  The Orrefors version is at: http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2533 Height: 4 cm Diameter: 16 cm Weight: 1650 g ...

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Alvar Aalto 'Aalto' vase for iitala

This was designed in 1936 by architect Alvar Aalto as an entry in a competition at the Karhula-iitala glassworks.  The firm was seeking designs for the Paris World's Fair of 1937, and this was the winning entry.  One of the first purchas...

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Signed Vicke Lindstrand 1940 Orrefors 'carved ice' 2kg bowl

Before Lindstrand was a star for Kosta, he was a star for Orrefors.  This is one of his modernist designs for Orrefors, a heavy ,signed and stickered rectangular bowl that looks as if it was carved out of ice with an adze.  It's similar ...

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Signed Timo Sarpaneva 1951 Iittala 'Devil's Fist' art object

This is another famous piece from the late Timo Sarpaneva for Iittala, the Devil's Fist (Hiidennyrkki), designed in 1951 when he first came to Iittala.  It was made from 1952 to 1960 (see Iittala: 125 years of Finnish Glass, Marianne Aav (ed....

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Signed and labelled John Orwar Lake set for Ekenas

These pieces have an intended random array of bubbles, and a mix of colours.  Lake worked as chief designer and art director for Ekenas from 1953 until it closed in 1976.   Vase: Height: 8cm Width: 8cm Weight: 310g Engraved ...

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Signed Jaako Niemi for Nuutajarvi Notsjo 1964 heavy sommerso bowl

We don't know much about Niemi, but this was such a beautiful design, we had to have it.  He seems to have designed at Nuutajarvi Notsjo from at least the mid-50s until the mid-60s.  Nuutajarvi Notsjo is the oldest glass factory in Finla...

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