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Posted 11 months ago
austrohung…
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I wish I could offer a better picture of this vase. After all it's a real icon of glass design and it deserves being shown in its full splendour ;)
As we can read at the decopedia "Ingeborg Lundin's "Äpplet" (the Apple) is one of the biggest icons of Swedish 1950's glass art. It was available in a crystal clear and a light green version, where the colourful green layer is covered by a crystal clear layer. It was manufactured as long as into the 1980's when a principal decision was made at Orrefors to discontinue manufacturing of art glass from artists no longer active within the firm, also as a means to maintain the value of the early pieces in respect of the artists and collectors. Sizes vary from 30 up to 50 cm in diameter. Ingeborg Lundin also designed a "relative" to the Apple - the Melon, which had a similar but flatter look and was made in other colours. Prices of the Apple vary depending on size and manufacturing year, but never come under 4-digit EUR-numbers. "
I seem to recall it's signed "Orrefors EXPO 62 Ingeborg Lundin"... I should have taken a picture of it but I hardly even dared to handle it to take this picture (as it happens with the rest of his Lundin stuff).
Carlos bought it at a very exclusive and expensive shop in Valencia that was running out of business for the amazing ammount of... 60 euros! (although that was long before the Euro existed).
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Major item, mate! This has been on the wish list for thirty years! A wish never fulfilled! YET!
If you are afraid to touch it, I won't go near it...just admire Carlos' good taste from afar.
very beautiful my friend:)
love this very much ,austrohungaro heres something you would love and missed:)
heres the link and ive posted this on cw http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/57918-nambe--tilt-decanter
Sublime!!!
Always loved this so much only ever seen one , way out of my price lague at that time Can you perhaps make a photo of how you have it displayed.
I think I have one somewhere on my hard disk, will check it out later. This piece lives "at the other house" in Valencia, so it's hard to "satisfy your request" at the moment ;)
Magnifique!
Look what Christie's says about the price (of the green one):
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/ingeborg-lundin-apple-vase-4799689-details.aspx?intObjectID=4799689
Lovely! I think ours is slightly smaller.
Your attention everybody: please realize when I say MY/MINE it means it belongs to my own collection. When I say OUR/OURS it clearly means it belongs to his collection... LOL!!!!
By the way, THANKS EVERYBODY (cobaltcobold, vlkma238412, miKKoChristmas11, BELLIN68, AmberRose, vetraio50 and Londonloetzlearner) for your Loves!!!
Ok, the second photo is the only other one I had displaying the APPLET at the moment. Maybe Carlos has got a more general view at home.
The two orange chairs are old Panton chairs and the table, although you cannt appreciate it on the picture, is a Bruno Mathson... I hope can share another picture!
Thanks Scandi! It's such a beauty!!!
This is indeed a lovely piece of art in glass! A bit like an inverse counterpart to Nils Landbergs tulip glasses. I've never held an Äpple in my hands, is it heavy? It looks so lightweighted...
Cannot tell you about the weight, but it wasn't much. As I explain before this one "lives" in another city and it will still be a couple of weeks before I'll see it again. The only thing I remember is I was really scared it could fell from my hands... I guess it'd due more to the shape than the weight, as I don't recall it heavy at all...
love the second picture with the chairs:)
Carlos thanks you, Bellin! Me too! :) That's how the vase is displayed: on a white table surrounded by four old Panton orange chairs.
Hello austrohungaro and Carlos :) your very welcome i love it very cool indeed:) wow , what a wonderful home you two share together:)