More Playing With Glass

For Mandarin Monday and Ruby Tuesday Too

Bottles in a Window

 at Glasets Hus, Limmared (glass museum)

For Mandarin Orange Monday at Lorik Art :-)

FMTSO: Through Glass

   

Two years ago I took these photos of glass objects at an exhibition in Borås Textile Museum. They were displayed in big glass cabinets (with light coming from all sides), so it’s glass seen through glass.

(If anyone is wondering “why glass at a textile museum”, the exhibit was about Swedish design in the 1960s and 70s, also including furniture and textiles.)

 

Last summer I got to see the same exhibition again, but in another museum (also an old textile factory) in a smaller village in the district around here.

There the glass objects were displayed differently:

Personally I liked the ‘open’ display better. But it’s interesting how you can create different impressions using the same objects in different settings.

On the same outing last summer, I took these two photos at the café where we had a late lunch.

Friday My Town Shoot Out: ‘Through Glass’

Ruby Tuesday: Red Bottles

Display at a florist’s shop.
I did not ask, but I assume the bottles are for putting flower shoots in to take root.

For Ruby Tuesday

Friday My Town – Glass

Glassware from a 1970’s Design Exhibition at the Textile Museum
(February 2011)

“Glasmästeri” = Glasscutter’s Workshop (January 2010)

My New Year’s Eve table 2011. I don’t have a whole lot of ‘fine’ glassware and china, but I do have these (six) glasses, which I only use on festive occasions. They were my mother’s - maybe even her mother’s, I’m not sure. Mum passed these on to me about twenty years ago because she also had a set of similar ones after my other grandma.

 

The “snowball” candle holder (for tealights) is a very popular model from the Swedish glassworks Kosta Boda. (Designed in 1973 by Ann Wärff; I think I’ve also had mine since back in the mid 70s.) The origin of the other candle holders I’m not sure of.

Watery Wednesday: How To Keep The Bottle Cold

I spy with my little eye… A green bottle stuck in the ice in a waterfall!

For Watery Wednesday

Mosaic Monday: Green Glass

Glassware from an exhibition of 60’s/70’s Swedish Design at our Textile Museum. More pictures from the Museum can be seen at my other blog, Beyond the Lone Islands. I think these glass objects (or some of them) were designed by Erik Höglund (1932-1998).

 

When I got home from the exhibition, I took out one of my own green glass plates and held it up against the light. If memory doesn’t fail me, I bought those (I have eight of them) on a holiday trip in 1977, at one of the famous Swedish glassworks Kosta or Boda (nowadays merged into Kosta Boda). Erik Höglund worked at Boda 1953-1973. I don’t suppose my plates are his design… but maybe influenced by his ideas?

See more Monday Mosaics at Mary’s Little Red House.