Gunnar Cyrén, a 94-piece "Helena" glass service, Orrefors.
Consisting of:
2 decanters, height 29 cm.
14 champagne glasses, height 22.5-23 cm.
25 wine glasses, height 19.5-20 cm.
14 schnapps glasses, height 17.5 cm.
4 liqueur glasses, height 11 cm.
1 dessert/cocktail glass, height 15.5 cm.
4 large tumblers, height 10 cm.
3 tumblers, height 9 cm.
12 small tumblers, height 7.5-8 cm.
14 highball glasses/beer glasses, height 15-15.5 cm.
Ice bucket with tongs, diameter 14.5, height with handle, length of tongs 18 cm.
A highball glass with a manufacturing defect in the form of an enclosed crack. A few minor chips. Some glasses are possibly polished down a bit at the edge, and with a bit of roughness on the edge.
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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