Turquoise Magic - Vladislav Urban MORAVIA Vase

One of the few pieces still available at our shop. The sales of Sklo Union vases have exploded during the lockdown months and most of our inventory is gone. I was able to source new pieces, which sold instantaneously, some of them in less than 24 hours. This turquoise blue MORAVIA vase was designed by Vladislav Urban in 1969 for Rosice Glassworks of former Czechoslovakia. This is a fabulous glass piece in a very hard to find color. Truly, a great find. You can buy it now HERE

Blue Glass Series 6: Riihimäki Lasi Ultra Bowls

 

Riihimaki Lasi Blue ULTRA Bowl

                  

                  

               

Blue Glass Series 6: Riihimäki Lasi Ultra Bowls

These blue ULTRA bowls, designed by Pertti Kallioinen for Riihimaki Lasi some time in the 1980's are really beautiful, even if the pink version of these bowls seem to be more appreciated, the blue bowl has its charm. It is a lovely designm textured glass, waves like, it made sense to include them in my series of blue glasses. As I have mention before, I make this series because I love blue glasses, textured (like these bowls) or not. Any plain blue glass will do it for me, I think they are super pretty.

We have these beauties in stock in our Etsy store.

Blue Glass Series 5: Hadeland Blue Vases

                  

Hadeland Blue Vases

Hadeland Glassverk of Norway has a stunning line of cobalt blue vases designed by Willy Johansson (1921-1993) in the 1970´s. Johansson´s started working for Hadeland in 1936 as a third generation of glass makers. He started working as a designed in 1947 and worked there until 1988. Among the hundreds of pieces he created for Hadeland, there is this line of blue tall vases with clear glass bases. These were not produced only in blue, but the blue version of this line of vases is the most valued one. Maybe the most famous one is the bubble glass vase, the tall and thin vase with a bubble on the bottom. We have a pair of those in stock, the small ones with 20cm tall and 3cm diameter. Just as beautiful as the tall ones.

You can check our glass vases here 

Blue Glass Series 4: Ingrid Glas Cobalt Blue Glass Vase

                 

Ingrid Glass

This beautiful vase is a lovely example of German mid century glass. It is not the most rare piece of glass design, but still very beautiful and attractive. Ingrid Glass, or in German Ingridglas, or Ingrid Glashütte, Ingridhütte was a glass manufacturer based in Germany. It was founded in 1960's and possibly went bankrupt in 1979. This is not the most famous piece from Ingridglas which is mostly known for a line of vases that resemble bark.

This beauty you can find here

Blue Glass Series 3: Magnor of Norway Glass Vase

Blue Glass Series 3: A Magnor of Norway Hooped Glass Vase

This lovely not so tall (16,5cm) cobalt blue hooped handmade glass vase is part of a series of hooped vases with many sizes and colors. The entire series is very pretty and is very appreciated in the Norwegian vintage market. Made by Magnor, a Norwegian glass giant, it is definitely worth more in the domestic market than in the international scene. This vase no longer has the original label, but I have seen vases exactly like this one, in many vintage stores and markets around Norway, all with the label "Handmade Magnor, Made in Norway". The pity is that I have never managed to find out the name of the designer who developed this series of hooped vases to Magnor since I have never been able to find any one of Magnor's old catalogs. Actually I am not even sure there were any catalogs with the names of the designer. Anyway, it is always pity not know the name of the designer...

This beauty is for sale here

By the way, we have in stock another vase like this one, except that it has four hoops instead of three. You can find the vase with four hoops  here

Blue Glass Series 2: Tamara Aladdin "Taalari" Cobalt Blue Ashtray

Blue Glass Series 2: Tamara Aladdin "Taalari" Blue Ashtray

Nobody smokes these days anymore, I mean, smoking is more and more an vilified thing of the past. Not fair with the ashtrays though. They were always some amazing beautiful ashtray art out there and they should keep coming. All mid century glass manufacturers included ashtray in their collections, it was part of life and it was an inherent part of creation. Not so much anymore. The other day I was browsing Christiana Glass Magazin and there aren't any ashtrays in line there... Even if less, people keep smoking, mostly outdoors or for therapeutic reasons but the ashtrays are gone. Too many vintage ashtrays out there and they are so pretty that it is impossible to ignore. Better adapt. You can use the beautiful piece for candy, for nuts, for salt or even as a ring dish. Why not? This one was designed by Tamara Aladdin for Riihimäen Lasi of Finland. A cobalt blue textured glass with the "Taalari" pattern designed by Tamara Aladin in 1973.

This beauty you can find here

Blue Glass Series 1: Cobalt Blue Textured Freeform Ruffled Finnish Art Glass Vase

Blue Glass Series

We have some beautiful blue glass items in stock and I am totally in love with all of them. Talking about "poliamore" at a glass level I am... My initial plan was to make a post with all the blue beauties we have on stock but since I have a terrible time editing photos I just could not pick only one of each piece. So, what was supposed to be a post became a series and to open it you have some images of a gorgeous, medium size, textured, free form ruffled, Finnish Art Glass blue glass vase. It is labeled and the label states: Art Lasi, Made in Finland, nothing else. I have other pieces by this manufacturer but have not been able to find the name of the designer. Anonymous, or not, is just beautiful anyway...  

You can find this lovely vase for sale here