Gunnar Cyrén
Gunnar Cyrén, a 42-piece "Karolina" glass service, Orrefors, Sweden.
Cut decoration, faceted stem. Several pieces labelled and signed Of under the foot. Consisting of:
11 wine glasses, 14.5 cm (four not of first quality, two chipped).
5 cocktail glasses, 11.5 cm.
2 dessert wine glasses, 12 cm (one chipped).
3 sherry glasses, 11.5 cm.
8 strong wine glasses, 12.5 cm.
6 seltzer glasses, 8 cm.
7 liqueur glasses, 8.5 cm.
4 seltzer glasses of a different model and a very similar fortified wine glass are included. Chips. Four of the wine glasses are second sorting with green labels, two of which have chips.
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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