Gunnar Cyrén
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GUNNAR CYRÉN, a glass and gilt bronze chandelier, Orrefors, Sweden 1960's.
For twelve lights, cast glass leaves and eight polished prisms, height 90 cm, diameter ca 52 cm.
A few small chips, electrical function not tested.
Provenance
Gefle festvåning, Grand Hotel, Gävle.
Exhibitions
In 1965 Gunnar Cyrén made an exhibition with similar chandeliers.
Literature
Monica Boman (ed), "Svenska Möbler 1890-1990", Signum, Lund 1991, see the drawing by Architect Helge Zimdahl of the dining room at the Swedish Embassy in Brasilia, three similar Gunnar Cyrén chandeliers, p 416.
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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