From the contemporary art exhibition:
Kjell Engman:
”This is the Borderland
the Blue Lagoon, the liquid
and the solid.
There a bird hangs,
the bird symbolizes freedom.
The flow of water is constant,
the water has frozen into glitter.
[translation by me]
Heli Heino:
Hand-blown glasses displayed in a window
The chairs are antique furniture upholstered with new fabrics in patterns designed by the artist.
On Friday, my brother and I visited The House of Glass, a glass museum at Limmared; a village about 35 km south east of Borås. Limmareds glasbruk, founded in 1740, is Sweden's oldest still running glassworks – maybe best known as manufacturer of the Absolut Vodka bottle. (The third largest brand of alcoholic spirits in the world, according to omniscient Wiki.)
The entrance to the glass museum. (The bottle to the right I copied from Google Images. I’ve never even tasted the stuff.)
Old glassworks equipment
A model of the glassworks and village in 1902.
Where the magic takes place…
Live demonstration.
The same photo as in yesterday’s blogpost,
somewhat straightened up (for Adrian!)
The same glass case seen from the other side,
looking towards the windows.
This one is for Sandra!
Painted white glass.
Edvin Ollers (1888-1959)
Swedish designer and artist who
designed a lot of products for Limmared
from the late 1920s into the 1940s;
among other things perfume bottles.
He also made designs for other glassworks;
and also worked with other materials
like tin, silver, ceramics and oil painting.
Close-ups of some of the smaller objects.
Modern installation art: Bottle Post
…
The House of Glass also contains an exhibition hall for contemporary art, a small shop and a café. There will be some more pictures coming up in later posts.
Linking this post to Shadow Shot Sunday
Not easy to make out what’s what in this photo. You might be tempted to think I was looking through the glass case towards the windows, but the windows that you see here were actually on the wall behind me…
The photo is from the Glass Museum at Limmared, Sweden. More photos from my visit there today will be coming up soon. This one is for Weekend Reflections.
Glass from 1960’s/70’s Swedish Design exhibition at the Textile Museum. I refer you to an older post at my other blog (DawnTreader’s Picture Book) to see more of the green glass. To see more posts from the Textile Museum on this blog, click on that label below.
Three of Sweden’s most famous glassworks are nowadays merged into one company, Orrefors Kosta Boda. Back in the 70’s I visited at least the latter two; where the objects in this exhibition were also probably made.
Glassblower at Kosta Glassworks (photo from Swedish Wikipedia article)
“The process of free-blowing involves the blowing of short puffs of air into a molten portion of glass which is gathered at one end of the blowpipe. This has the effect of forming an elastic skin on the interior of the glass blob that matches the exterior caused by the removal of heat from the furnace. The glassworker can then quickly inflate the molten glass to a coherent blob and work it into a desired shape. --- Skilled workers are capable of shaping almost any vessel forms by rotating the pipe, swinging it and controlling the temperature of the piece while they blow. They can produce a great variety of glass objects, ranging from drinking cups to window glass.” (Wikipedia)
