If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles
Posted 1 year ago
austrohung…
(355 items)
These 4 pieces are typical of Signe Persson-Melin's designs, which is famous for her work in glass and cork.
I first got one of her designs just for chance... I was buying some stuff from a Swedish dealer and she told me about that morning's finds and fell in love with he corck stopper (pic. 1): it's made of a piece of actual turning cork, not just agglomerate cork as one can see in modern designs in this material. I take this as a show of the work in those years: quality stuff made with the real first-class materials...
I don't know the names of the designs in the two first pictures (if they have one), but I know the jug on the third picture is a Kvadrat. I quite like this design based upon simple traditional shapes.
Scandinavian Art GlassIt isn’t easy to pin down Scandinavian art glass. Like the people of the re…
DecantersDecanters are sometimes associated with wine, whose sediments such as lees …
The first picture to the left shows a decanter from the Bouquet-series, the middle photo shows what in Swedish is called "jungfru" (= virgin) or "brännvingumma" (= hard to translate ... I'd suggest something like brandy trull :) ...).
Persson-Melin's cork-objects aren't only beautiful but also very functional: her ice bucket out of cork uses the insulating effect of cork just as much as cork handles on her oven ware do.
Thanks so much for your help, designqvist!!! Thanks to you I've been able to identify quite a lot of pieces now!!!
By the way, from now on I will reffer to the two in the middle pic as jungfru... brännvingumma seemd too complicated to me!!! LOL