Tag: Swedish design

Designer Desire: Bertil Vallien

Collage of Bertil Vallien designs | H is for Home

I had a really tough time short-listing images of the works of Bertil Vallien – there are so many magnificent ones!

Swedish artist, Vallien (b. 1938) worked in the Kosta Boda glassworks for over half a century. He has also produced glass, ceramics and metalware for well-known companies such as Åfors, Gustavsberg, Rörstrand and Hal Fromhold.

1st Dibs, eBay and Etsy always have examples of his vast back-catalogue for sale.

Have a watch of the short film showing Vallien at work in 2016, producing the huge glass piece – Passage – for Kosta Boda in celebration of their long-standing relationship and the company’s 275th anniversary.

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Designer Desire: Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist

Mosaic of Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist furniture designs | H is for Home

We’re back in Scandinavia for this week’s Designer Desire subject matter. Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist (1925-1997) was a Swedish furniture designer and architect.

Arguably, many of her furniture designs have a distinct, feminine feel with their organic, curvaceous silhouettes. For example, her Paradiset range that she produced in the 1950s for department store, Nordiska Kompaniet (NK). The line consisted of Little Eva, Big Eve, Small Adam, Great Adam, Uncle Adam, The Sofa, The Purple Paradise, the Lustgården chaise longue and Fikonlövet footstool.

In the 1960s, she designed the Charlotte dining set for Finnish design firm, Asko and the Skrindan range for OPE Möbler.

A small selection of her work is sold new on the Clippings website and via specialist vintage design sites such as Bukowski’s and 1st Dibs.

Portrait of Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquistcredit

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