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Grown up at Strömbergshyttans glassworks, Sweden. Worked there for a short period in the mid-1970s. My grandfather is Knut Bergqvist, inventor of the Graal techniqueGrown up at Strömbergshyttans glassworks, Sweden. Worked there for a short period in the mid-1970s. My grandfather is Knut Bergqvist, inventor of the Graal technique at Orrefors in summer 1916. Gate and Hald used the Graal method in their compositions, from some time into 1917, to create great art glass. Sometimes in collaboration with master blower Bergqvist by shape. But most early Graal compositions from 1916 and many from 1917 (some even later), however has the blower himself, Knut Bergqvist, as the author of shape, while the patterns in the beginning were both designed and etched by Heinrich Wollman and Fritz Blomqvist on the emryos that Bergvist produced. My father, Putte Bergqvist, was also a glassblower and foreman at Strömbergshyttan from about 1940 to 1979, when the mill was closed. I am interested in glass, but also photography. I have photo documented some of the last remaining of the Swedish Kingdom of Crystal today. Eg Kosta, Orrefors, Åfors, Bergdala, Skruf and some smaller studio foundries. (Read more)

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Gerda Stromberg vase with Knut Bergqvist applied flower. - Art Glassin Art Glass
2 days ago
Gunnar Nylund vase on heel base - Strombergshyttan 1950s. - Art Glassin Art Glass
3 days ago
Windpipes - Bertil Vallien for Boda-Åfors 1970s. - Art Glassin Art Glass
4 days ago
Blue series vase - Bertil Vallien Boda/Åfors. - Art Glassin Art Glass
11 days ago
12 parts of the Blue Series - Bertil Vallien, Boda-Åfors 1960s. - Art Glassin Art Glass
12 days ago
Square prism vase - Gunnar Nylund, Strombergshyttan 1954. - Art Glassin Art Glass
15 days ago
Drop vase B820 - Asta Stromberg for Strombergshyttan late 1950s - Art Glassin Art Glass
16 days ago
Strombergshyttan vase with small bubbles in underlay. - Art Glassin Art Glass
24 days ago
CLASSIC STROMBERGSHYTTAN MODEL B 852 - ASTA STROMBERG LATE 1950S. - Art Glassin Art Glass
25 days ago
Small bowls - Gunnar Nylund for Strombergshyttan 1950s - 60s. - Art Glassin Art Glass
27 days ago

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  1. Glad to her that Moonstone! Maybe I can show much more of Strombergshyttan glass forwards? Have came across a large collection of glass pieces, marked with model numbers. I try to clean them up and t...
  2. Thanks Eye4Beauty and charcoal! I share as much i can find. My father saved meaterial and wrote down as much as he could during his lifetime. It is thanks to him that we have been able to solve a lot ...
  3. Thanks Bellin!
  4. Thanks AmberRose! Appologize for my photographs, they are in monochrome, so the blue tinted Stromberg crystal can not be shown here. I got some difficult uggly stick that I had problems to eliminate, ...
  5. Thanks vetraio! The colors are very nice and the heel base in the the linked vase are opposite (with the dark color underlay on top istead of bottom).
  6. Thanks for the post and the information about porro drinking!
  7. I feel jealousy. So many bottles by Helena Tynell.
  8. Very nice glass, and the box...superb!
  9. Unusual color and design. Nice piece of glass!
  10. Thanks "PDAM", vetraio, bellin and lovers! No vetraio, Åsa Jungnelius still "belongs" to Orrefors/Kosta-Boda what I know today.
  11. Small series, outside normal range, I believe was always signed with author (se Asta Stromberg special Collection and Nylunds numbered glass GN _ _ _A) in Strombergshyttan. Otherwise mostly with only ...
  12. I have also seen the decanter (and some other items) in differnt color. And in clear crystal as you say. Wich colors they were produced in, and if all items was made in the other colors, I don't know....
  13. The Cascade seems rare and special as you say, according to Anders other production. Are they in small series because they are signed so carefully and clearly on the bottom?
  14. I don't mind designqvist! And thanks charcoal, austro and vlkma!
  15. Thanks designqvist and artislove! I agree, the knowledge will be irrecoverably lost. But we hope that the most handicraft production could stay in Sweden, and only the more mechanaized production wilo...
  16. Supplements: There looks to be a great job done by master blower too. Uniform thickness of the edges and nicely "driven" mouth. However, first blown in solid form, but then finished by the pure craft...
  17. My strong side is not to value glass, but I assure that 7.50 USD is quite good price, because it's a beautiful shape of the decanter. I have one blue decanter by Borgstrom- Aseda without stopper, but ...
  18. Another possibility is that Asta Stromberg also drawed the vase in the link, and that Rune Strands signature is for the engraved/cutted pattern? If it, is so, I think your dacanter is a design by Asta...
  19. Hi Moonstonelover! I'am coming with some facts: Model number of this decanter is E 209. E stands for decanters. The missing stopper is round and smooth. A design from early - mid 1960s (catalog number...
  20. The finnish glasswork Ittala, I think, do not produce any of their products in Finland. 100% comes from other counties what I have Heard..
  21. Tanks bellin! And vetraio, no they still do at least their art glass in Kosta. If they design new glassware (like the blue series) I don't know? Another thing to mention is, that Orrefors-Kosta/Boda n...
  22. Hi GlasswareGuy! Amazing vases by Fabian Lundqvist! I have seen at least 6 different colors. Have one myself in amethyst/purple 37 cm. Here you can see 6 colors: http://glasbloggen.blogspot.se/2013/04...
  23. Thanks Bellin and freiheit! I like this square prism model better than the hexagonal.
  24. Thanks for your interest and comments! I'm glad to tell you a little of the history from the Stromberg factory.
  25. Very nice color! Matches the organic shape/form fine!
  26. I had almost forgotten about these things myself austro, but have some memories of them since my early childhood, when we ran around and played in the glass factory and also looked into the second cla...
  27. Hi designqvist! The bluish tint in the crystal of my bowl, is exactly the same as in other items I have from Strombergshyttan from the same period (1950s). So I'am quite sure this is abowl from S-h! T...
  28. Thanks deignqvist! I love Nylunds glass from 1950s.
  29. You have right MacArt! Perhaps they used detergent powder to roll the embryo ( (called "post") in Iatly too?
  30. Thanks for all loves!
  31. I found another bowl in an antique store today, the same technique but different shape and unsigned. Looking to call and ask them to reserve it for me? The blue color in underlay seemed slightly brigh...
  32. Thanks Bellin!
  33. Thanks, you all! I hope to find one in a bigger size, but then we should probably have much luck...
  34. Lovely color, and seems to bee a good work!
  35. I like Bengt Orups design! I see him as one of the absolut best glass designers we ever had in Sweden. Unfortunately I have no glass pieces by him. The finest glass by Orup seems hard to find?
  36. Right, PDAM! Thanks for watching and commenting!
  37. Alla I know about them is they are stylish and beautiful!
  38. Thanks, "austro"! Yes she had quite modern style. If you compare with the glass produced for Lindefors (at the same factory) 1928-31, Gerdas glass from 1933 and forwards differ a lot.
  39. Thanks all for loves and comments! More Gerda (and Asta) glass will be presented forwards.
  40. It looks more like Asta Stromberg design, than Gunnar Nylund, as I see it. The clean lines falls back to similar vases and bowls by Gerda Stromberg, and Asta was inspired by Gerda and renewed many of ...
  41. A guess: Color and glass type looks exactly like Erik Höglund for Boda, Sweden. The handle type (like arms) also point at Höglund. But the glassblowers work is not perfect, therfore not cutted pointil...
  42. Nice you got one in the same color! I Think the two were designed about 1963-64, after what I can see in the catalogs. But the model were still in production in the mid 1970s. The color is X 75, sar...
  43. My vase is not signed but labeled with first sorting sticker. I don't know about my brothers? I'll ask him.
  44. If they were not signed, one would think it was designed by Asta Stromberg, Strombergshyttan. Really clean design of her kind. Wonderful candlesticks/holders!
  45. Thanks austrohungaro, I'll think of you if I find another one!
  46. Lovely glass basket!
  47. Industrielen series seems to be beautiful things! This color is something special.
  48. cobaltcobold and artislove: In Sweden my grandfather Knut Bergqvist made several models in Venetian older style when he was recruited to Orrefors in 1914. He both copied models and performed his own c...
  49. Thanks vetraio!
  50. Glad that I can take the breath away from you a little while RussTenale... ;)
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