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Bengt Orup for Johansfors lampbase

If you want groovy 60s/70s decor, this is the sort of lamp for you. Grow your sideburns (only try this if you're male), dim the lights, put on some Doobie Brothers and sink back into the ambience. You'll probably also like the Italian equivalent...
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Signed 1967 Spontana Johansfors Orup art glass vase

This is a sommerso vase. The round bubble of coloured glass (turquoise,blue and green) that you can see in the bottom of the vase was originally the top of the glassblower's bubble. They've somehow created a fine layer of tiny bubbles on the outsi...
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SIGNED 1950s Bengt Orup Johansfors Swedish art glass

This is a caramel coloured, sommerso vase, designed by Bengt Orup for Johansfors in the 1950s. He worked there from 1951 to 1973.  Height: 24cm Width: 10cm Weight: 1kg Etched "Johansfors Orup" to the base, Stickered "JOHANSFORS SWEDEN" ...
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Signed Bengt Orup 1960s art glass bowl for Hyllinge

Here's a bargain piece in lovely condition.  Bengt Orup worked for Johansfors from 1951 to 1973 but also had a brief spell of freelancing for Hyllinge in 1963, during which time he designed this simple but stylish bowl in clear and gray glass...
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Bengt Orup bowl with metal particles for Hyllinge

Pina and Vigier's invaluable book, Scandinavian Glass 1930-2000: Smoke and Ice, p52, shows a similar-sized Orup piece (a 21cm tall vase) for Johansfors in the same technique which they say was designed around 1967.  They value it at US$800-10...

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Huge signed, labelled 1950s Bengt Orup vase for Johansfors

Of all that we've owned, this is probably my favourite Bengt Orup design. Simple and beautiful, it's similar to one of our favourite Holmegaard designs, a very big Per Lutken vase (see the photo below, or http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces...
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Signed Per Lutken Holmegaard art glass drop vase

These are a favourite of ours. Simple and beautiful, and more perfectly rounded than similar vases by other manufacturers . We put this down to the process of blowing the glass that Lutken and his glass-blowers developed, inserting a wet wooden ...
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Bengt Orup art glass set of 10 pieces (+ bonus piece) for Johansfors

As I've said repeatedly on this site, sets of art glass have advantages in terms of both display and investment. With 10 pieces, this is a special set; it has 4 vases, a jug, a carafe, 2 mugs, a candlestick holder, and a bowl. A number of the pie...

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