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Michael Bang for Holmegaard hule vase

This Danish hule ("hole") vase was a clever design by Michael Bang in the 1970s. The holes are for flower arranging. If you leave out the flowers, they have a sort of moon crater look to them that makes me think "space age". ...
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1976 Ingeborg Lundin ariel vase

We now have video of this piece, which should help people who've never seen ariel glass to understand how beautiful it is.   This design was from the early 60s but this particular vase was made in 1976.  Another example of this L...
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Kaj Franck 1963 bowl for Nuutajarvi

The finest designs are often simple. A brilliant designer has a vision for a piece which is not very different from thousands of similar bowls, and yet it is different, and unique, and beautiful. This is a Kaj Franck classic for Nuutajarvi of F...
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1970s Vicke Lindstrand multi-coloured vase for Kosta

You can see that in different photos this piece displays blue or amber at the edge of the green.  This is one of our favourite Lindstrand designs in terms of the colour combination.  Lindstrand used amber yellow and blue sommerso layers ...
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Signed 1960s Flygsfors sommerso lamp

Swedish glassmaker Flygsfors did a steady trade in sommerso lamps in the 1950s and 60s.  (The Italian "sommerso" technique puts a thick layer - often clear - around the coloured part of the piece.)  If signed, as here, they bea...
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Lindstrand polar bears iceblock paperweight for Kosta

This was clever design, enlightened management, and good business from Vicke Lindstrand. In the 1950s, the trend was for less cut and engraved glass. Kosta had a fully-staffed factory when Lindstrand arrived in 1950, and the cutters and engraver...
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Signed 1970s 4kg Vicke Lindstrand Kosta 'battuto' glass ashtray

This is a monster, a wonderful 4kg companion piece to the smaller version we have listed at http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2483. It's made with a technique the Italians call 'battuto' meaning beaten.  After the piece cools, t...
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Pair of mid-century vases with holes, green by Gunnar Ander for Lindshammar

Orange and green are complementary colours, and these display very well together.  The green vase is definitely the design of Swedish designer, Gunnar Ander, for Lindshammar Glasbruk.  An architect by profession, he designed at Lindshamm...
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Vintage Archimede Seguso Murano 2kg gold sommerso Mexican figurine

Since I listed this, Leslie Pina's book on Archimede Seguso has come out.  It shows a number of Mexican caricature figurines (p166-168), both in sommerso and in Seguso's distinctive alabastro glass, all with the exact same characteristic pose...
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1950s Murano art object with label

We like the art objects of Swedish firm, Flygsfors. Here's an Italian take on the concept. The arms are pulled with metal tools, not moulded.  This one is not so much of an art object that it couldn't actually hold something, but clearly, it...
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