Orrefors Crystal Designers | Crystal Classics

: Lena Bergstrom

Lena Bergstrom received her art education at the College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and studied at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. After coming to Orrefors in 1993-1994 to participate in a special design project, Lena was captivated by glass and has been affiliated with Orrefors ever since. Her creations, which are soft of line yet graphically eloquent, represent a new generation of expression. Lena has always seen her work in glass in relationship to a tabletop, which determines the form, dimensions and proportions. Lena has received numerous public commissions and has won Excellent Swedish Design awards for six of her glass collections. She is collected in the permanent exhibitions of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm; the Rohsska Museum of Applied Art, Gothenburg; and the Cleveland Art Museum.

To view the complete collection please visit our Orrefors Crystal pages.

Crystal Classics is the largest independent retailer of Orrefors Crystal in the U.S.

As early as 1726, Lars Johan Silversparre received permission to build a furnace and a smithy at "the beautiful river that flows into Lake Orrenas". The iron works was given the name Orrefors, which means "the Orre waterfall".

Orrefors' international breakthrough came at the Paris Exhibition of 1925. From the Hotel de Ville, the Town Hall of Paris, the Swedish pavilion borrowed a magnificent glass goblet designed by Simon Gate that had been presented as a gift to the City of Paris from the City of Stockholm in 1922. The goblet became a sensation, and the prestigious Grand Prix award was given to Orrefors and its designers. The glassblowers and engravers received gold medals. Many of the imposing glas objects from Orrefors were created for special occasions, or to special order. The motifs in the engraved glass of that period may seem somewhat grandiloquent today, but the technique was consummately realized through skilled craftsmanship and the light, clear quality of the glass.

The ambition for all glass from Orrefors is the highest possible quality and exquisite design. This is the same objective that applied more than eighty years ago, when Johan Ekman traveled the long road through the forest, past the quiet farms behind their stonewalls...

And if you have once traveled this road, through dark spruce forests, across the open meadows, past the stone walls, past the shining lakes and the sparking brooks, you too will understand what makes it all possible. This where the world's most beautiful glass is created.

Crystal Classics is the largest independent retailer of Orrefors Crystal in the U.S.

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