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Gunnar Cyrén

(Sweden, 1931-2013)
Estimate
8 000 - 10 000 SEK
711 - 889 EUR
734 - 917 USD
Hammer price
13 000 SEK
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Gunnar Cyrén
(Sweden, 1931-2013)

a 46 pieces 'Kolonn' glass service, Orrefors, Sweden, post 1964.

Comprising:
12 wine glasses (height 17 cm)
12 champagne cups (height 14 cm)
11 wine glasses (height 12 cm)
6 shot glasses (height 18 cm)
5 whiskey glasses (7.5 cm)

Whiskey glasses with etched maker's marks.

More information

The model was designed in 1964.

Designer

Gunnar Cyrén (1931-2013) was a Swedish glass artist, silversmith and industrial designer. He worked for Orrefors glassworks between 1959 and 1970, then designed plastics for a few years and then returned to Orrefors in 1977. Highlights of his design career include "Pop glass" or "Cups with colored legs" (1966-1968) and "The Nobel Service" (1991). Over the years, Gunnar Cyrén has participated in several exhibitions in Sweden and abroad and received the King's scholarship in 1962, the Lunning prize in 1966 and the Prince Eugén medal in 1988. He is appointed professor by the government. In his hometown of Gävle, where he also had a gallery and a gold and silver smithy, he has been honored with his own room at the County Museum.

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