Kosta Boda

56°51′12″N 15°23′34″E / 56.85333°N 15.39278°E / 56.85333; 15.39278

Kosta Boda (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkǔːsta ˈbûːda]), formerly known as Kosta Glasbruk (IPA: [ˈkǔːsta ˈɡlɑ̂ːsbrʉːk]), is a Swedish glassmaking company that is a well known manufacturer of art glass and tableware. It is located in Kosta, Sweden, which was named for the company.^[1] The surrounding region has become known as the Kingdom of Crystal,^[2] and is now a tourist site which attracts a million visitors annually.^{[citation needed]}

History

Kosta Glasbruk was founded in 1742 by two officers in

Early production consisted of window glass, chandeliers and drinking glasses. From the 1840s, the factory was at the forefront of new trends and technical developments, producing pressed glass, and in the 1880s setting up a new glass-cutting workshop.^{[citation needed]}

In 1898, the company hired the artist Gunnar Gunnarsson Wennerberg [sv] as its first in-house designer.^[1] Between 1928 and 1950 Elis Bergh was the artistic director of Kosta Glasbruk (after 1950 and until his death in 1954, Bergh worked as a consultant for Kosta).^[4][1]

The company has a history of working with well known artists and designers such as Monica Backstrom [sv] Ewald Dahlskog [sv], Anna Ehrner [de], Sven Erixson, Erik Hoglund [sv], Åsa Jungnelius [sv],^{[citation needed]} Tyra Lundgren, Mona Morales-Schildt, Edvin Ollers [sv], Sven Erik Skawonius [sv], Ulrica Hydman Vallien, Bertil Vallien, Goran Warff [sv], and Ann Wolff.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][2][1]}

In the 1950s

Objects made by Kosta are in collections such as the Swedish National Museum, Smålands museum [sv], National Museum of Norway, the Victorian and Albert Museum in London, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Netherlands, as well as the Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York.^{[14][7][15][8][16][17][18][19]}

Kosta Boda is also known as the maker of the Eurovision Song Contest trophy since 2008.^[20]

Gallery

Views of the Kosta factory buildings and town

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  Aerial view, Kosta site
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  Main Street, Kosta
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  Kosta Boda foundry
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  Factory grounds
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  Art Gallery
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  Stenmagasinet 'The stone magazine'
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  Kosta Glashus by Bruno Mathsson
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  Cultural Heritage plaque, Kosta Glashus

Glass making process

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  Glassblowing demonstration
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  Glassblowing
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  Glassblowing
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  Glassblowing

Glass by Kosta Glasbruk

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  (c. 1800)
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  Elvira Madigan service
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  Pitcher
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  Crystal paperweight
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  Vase
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  Vase by Mona Morales-Schildt
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  Vase by Christian von Sydow
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  Vase by Göran Wärff
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  Vase by Gunnel Sahlin [sv] (1989)
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  Vase by Ulrica Hydman Vallien (2001)

Kosta Glashus by Bruno Mathsson

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kosta glasbruk.

• Official website