Kosta Boda Vicke Lindstrand Hand Made Vase #1404

Kosta Boda Vicke Lindstrand Hand Made Wonderful swirl Vase #1404 Vase dated. There are 3 in this series of Vases there is 1402, (12cm) 1404, (22cm) & 1406, (25cm). This listing is ONLY for the VL1404 Vase... Vicke Lindstrand was the Godfather of Kosta Boda Before Vicke, Kosta was good and very well known but when they Hired Vicke is when Kosta Boda's popularity around the world Exploded, Vicke brought Artisit Licience to Kosta's Desingners and unshackled them to bring forth Bertil Vallien Kjell Engman Goran Warff Monica Backstrom and Anna Ehrner...

FACT Without Vicke Kosta Boda would not be what it is today. Textile and ceramic designer, and painter. He is considered a pioneer of Swedish.

His work was part of the art competitions at the. Vicke (Viktor) Lindstrand, glass artist, illustrator, textile artist and ceramic designer.

He worked at Orrefors in 1928-41, where he designed glass in classic forms with engraved decor, often stylized figurative motifs. At the Stockholm exhibition in 1930, Orrefors exhibited his painted glass pieces. During the 1930s, the engraved and optic-blown glass with the "Pearl fisher" and "Shark hunter" came with its muscular bare figures. In front of the World Exhibition in Paris 1937, one starts working with the thick-walled glass, and he renewed the "graal" glass and together with Edvin Öhrström he introduced the "ariel" glass. Vicke Lindstrand was artistic director at Upsala-Ekeby 1942-50. After that he came to Kosta as an artistic director 1950-73, where he renewed the glass design and experimented with glass sculptures.