Kosta Ann and Goran Warff 1960s paperweight/sculpture

The first picture shows the way Goran and Ann Warff wanted their window-cut pieces to be viewed - looking directly into the window, like looking into a clear crystal pool with the cut and polished base reflecting up.  This is a heavy (2kg) 6 inch tall piece, similar in many ways to other Warff pieces we've sold - a combination of a textured surface, window-cut, and, in this case, with the mass of bubbles that we've seen in some of their other 1960s work.  See, for example, the last picture on this listing or

http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/1641 and http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/1876.

For those of you who are buying with an eye to investment, we think that the work of the Warffs is bound to appreciate.  This is bold, innovative, glass art by a couple who achieved great things together in the 1960s.  They were jointly awarded the Lunning Prize - the Nobel prize of Scandinavian design - in 1968.  Sadly, they divorced in 1972.

Height: 14cm
Width: 7.5cm
Weight: 1990g (!)

Engraved "Kosta" to the base

Condition: very light wear to the base, a 2x3mm and a 1.5x2mm fleabite to the edge of the base
 

If you like the work of Goran or Ann Warff, or both, here's some more:

http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2276
http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2253
http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/1957

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Our Reference: 2398

This item has sold for US $165.00

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