Thumbnail Filmstrip of Kosta Boda BOD Bottle - Burgundy, Medium Images
Description
Like a tall wineglass, Bod balances confidently while its bowl captures the play of light. With their sheer and tall shape, the bottles are a piece of art that stands grounded in every home. The handmade burgundy glass bottle on foot can be used as a decorative object, vessel, or vase.Specifications
• The removable cork is included
- H: 9.1
- W: 4.9
Vendor Info
The glassworks in Kosta was founded in 1742. The name was created from the surnames of the founders, Generals Koskull and Staël von Holstein. Kosta’s location, in the heart of the dense forests in the Swedish province of Småland, was chosen so that the glassworks could provide both Stockholm and Karlskrona with glass. Important roads crossed here, and there was also an unlimited supply of wood to heat the furnaces.
Fine utility glassware was made here during the first
150 years of the company’s existence and comprised products such as
window panes, bottles and drinkware, but also glass chandeliers and
similar items. The customers included royalty, nobility and wealthy
merchants who could afford the costly glassware. For a long time, the
glassblowers came from Bohemia, which is now part of the Czech Republic.
Many decades passed before Swedes learnt how to blow glass.
Kosta
exhibited its products at the General Art and Industrial Exposition of
Stockholm in 1897, but was criticised because its glassware mostly
resembled items made in other parts of Europe. This gave the company the
idea of employing its own designers. The idea rapidly gained ground and
remains the actual foundation of the way in which the glassworks
continually develops its product range.
The first designer at
the glassworks was Gunnar G:son Wennerberg, who joined the company in
1898. Many well-known artists have worked here since then, such as Sven
X-et Ericsson and Ewald Dahlskog. The first female artist was Tyra
Lundgren who was recruited in 1935. Many women have worked at the
glassworks since then and have been very successful.
Today’s
Kosta Boda was formed through a merger of the glassworks in the
communities of Kosta, Boda and Åfors. The group was initially called AB
Åforsgruppen and included Johansfors Glassworks at that time. The
company name was changed to Kosta Boda AB in 1976, and the company has
been part of Orrefors Kosta Boda AB since 1989.