Yes, indeed, the Kingdom Contents of Crystal is still here!

That’s the answer to the question that has been put to us rather often Ludvig Löfgren since the autumn of 2012, when Kosta Boda decided to stop The rebel who creates audacious producing in the Orrefors and Åfors localities. The media frequently for Målerås Glassworks. have given the impression that Småland’s last blowing room had closed. Nothing could be further from the truth! The is absolutely alive and well. There are multitudes of glassworks where The is in full swing, new blowing rooms are opening and young glassblowers and artists are breaking new ground. Find glassworks all around the Kingdom of Crystal. In several of them you yourself The Kingdom of Crystal offers unique experiences: visits to everything can become glassblower for a day. from classic glassworks to smaller studio glassworks, hand-on activities, guided tours of glassworks, hyttsill (hot-shop herring), shopping at outlet prices and lots of activities in Småland’s natural surroundings. Culture & Design And Kosta Boda Art Hotel extends unique lodging opportunities. Attractions such as circus shows and The Orrefors brand lives on. As does its line of products. You can still the only handmade paper mill in the buy well-known Orrefors glassware such as the Intermezzo, Divine and Nordic region. Nobel series. The difference is that the handblown glass now is made at Kosta instead. At Orrefors the Royal Design interior furnishings company has moved into the old glassworks, and a design outlet is planned for the Nature & Family summer. In the neighbouring town you will find Målerås Glassworks, Fish, paddle, cycle, ride a zip line and ’s largest privately owned glassworks, and all around the Kingdom meet an elk – the Kingdom of Crystal’s of Crystal there are hot glass furnaces in operation at dozens of places. forests are full of adventure. We bid you a warm welcome to experience the vibrant, glowing Kingdom of Crystal! Hyttsill A festive hot-shop herring meal in the spirit of the vagabonds: warm, congenial and delicious.

Stine Breum Appelqvist The good life acting managing director Stay in a glass artwork, enjoy good food and shopping in everything from large outlets to small country shops.

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Your guide to the glassworks

18 TRANSJÖ HYTTA // Imaginative art glass 25 SEA GLASBRUK // Function and form 19 ORREFORS BRUKSOMRÅDE // Crystal-clear elegance 26 BERGDALA GLASBRUK // Tradition and the future 20 // World-renowned imagination 27 JFS JOHANSFORS // A passion for glass and rum 22 MICKEJOHANS KONSTGLAS // The master takes glass into his own hands 28 MÅLERÅS GLASBRUK // Hundred percent craftsmanship 23 PUKEBERGS GLASBRUK // Focusing on colour 30 BODA // Living museum and artistic blowing room 24 GLASBRUK // Hand-painted favourites 31 SKRUFS GLASBRUK // Swedish Glass – Crystal Clear

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Rebel in an idyll

He creates audacious art glass that will usher the Kingdom of Crystal into the future. He is a rebel with roots in Småland craftsmanship. Meet Målerås’ new designer, Ludvig Löfgren.

We pass through the warm you are out there in the blowing room, here in Småland. Our strength is the Skulls in top hats, cobras, apes and is to butt up against what is commercial. blowing room and foundry, you have to have a plan for the various vicinity. The idea is born, the object takes a tattoo machine of glass. Ludvig goes It doesn’t work to simply make things. past the plaster workshop stages. Glass is a quick material. You have shape and then it is made – everything straight to the point in his art. Somebody must like them and want to with its cloud of dust. to stay with it and be open to what happens here in Målerås. The creator ”I want to achieve directness in my buy them, too. I like that challenge.” We continue past a room with photo happens during the process. is always close to production. That is works. Many customers speak up and let us Ludvig’s first collection for Målerås equipment for product pictures, climb ”Even if I am going to blow two similar a success factor for us.” know where they have placed their things. is being launched in 2014. a staircase and then reach the studio objects, I can’t do it in exactly the same Ludvig maintains that this is also Some have even named them – they ”There will be a lot of blown glass; where Ludvig Löfgren hangs out. Some way. A competent glassblower knows the more sustainable from a socio-economic become characters in the home. It is cool to that’s my thing, of course. But I will also sketches on the table, a pair of vases with art of compensating for the variability of perspective. have contact like that, that people create do some casting because that’s a specialty the new collection’s bird motif on a shelf. the molten glass. It calls for experience, ”Certainly our glass is somewhat their own relationship to the article.” of Målerås. We’re the only glassworks that The lanky man with a long ponytail and therefore it takes a long time to costly. Young people in particular might Sometimes he gets ideas and influences casts its own iron moulds. That gives me under his cap is one of the brightest become good at it.” think that it’s expensive. But I believe that from fashion, rebuilt cars and tattoos. an opportunity to be spontaneous and shining stars in Swedish . After There have been gloomy headlines if you have to save up a little in order to ”Other types of handicraft inspire me. to try out ideas.” a stay at art school to paint, glass became about crises and closures of glassworks in buy something, then you won’t become I don’t look at glass products very much. his medium of expression. recent years. But Ludvig is convinced that tired of it. It becomes more valuable in On the other hand, I think different glass ”It’s a special material: at first fluid there is a future for glass production in your eyes.” techniques are stimulating. Inspiration and hot, then congealing and become Småland. Traditionally glass is something that is an on-going process. It’s hard to say LUDVIG LÖFGREN transparent and hard as a rock. Glass is ”In society at large the prevailing trend older people buy. exactly how an idea crops up.” Born: 1972 always putting up resistance; it lives.” is for people to seek out what is genuine, ”What art glass needs to do now is to Music plays a big role in Ludvig’s Home: Månsamåla Ludvig Löfgren grew up in the apart from mass production. We see it with get a younger audience to discover glass. creativity. glass artist Åsa Jungnelius and two sons glassworks area of Skruv and trained as respect to furniture and food. That is behind It should be something that you choose ”I listen to a lot of sludge stone rock, Family: a glassblower at an early age. Most artists an upswing for craftsmanship in general.” yourself, not just what you get from your a musical genre with roots in hard rock of Education: A number of different painting schools, Orrefors and Kosta glass schools, who work with glass do not blow glass There is a place in this trend for glass parents as something that ’you should the 1970s with bands like Black Sabbath.” Pilchuck Glass School, U.S., University College themselves. craftsmanship. have when you grow up’. We need to find Being a designer at a glassworks does of Arts, Crafts and Design. Formerly designer at Kosta Boda, since 2013 associated with ”For me, it is an advantage. I can relax ”As far as I’m concerned, the decisive new sales outlets and other contexts than not mean total artistic freedom, however. Målerås because I know how glass behaves. When factor is that glass is made on the premises those where you usually see glass.” ”One aspect that I think is interesting Boda for Kosta in glass machine Tattoo

4 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 5 THE GLASS

Around the Kingdom of Crystal

Twelve glassworks await you all around the Kingdom of Crystal. Blowing room All with their own individuality and distinctive characteristics. You will find guided tours everything here from small one-man blowing rooms to large enterprises. Visitors always are welcome to look You’re welcome to discover the kingdom of glass craftsmanship! into the blowing room and see our glass- blowers at work. If you want to learn more, we recommend a guided tour. Then you get to know more about how glass production is carried out Try your hand and about the cutting and painting of glass. Bergdala SEA Kosta Målerås Transjö Orrefors at blowing glass and glasbruk glasbruk glasbruk glasbruk hytta bruksområde Guided tours are offered at Kosta Glassworks, Målerås Glassworks, Bergdala Glassworks Intimate works setting Brilliantly coloured Modern design and Blown and cast glass Idyllic blowing room Classic crystal, bring a masterpiece and in Boda with red buildings. The glass to give away shopping at Sweden’s with high artistic by the Lyckeby River. master of blasting home with you! classic Blå Kant (Blue Rim) as a gift – to yourself oldest glassworks, aspirations. All made Art glass in small and cutting. series side by side with or someone else. founded in 1742! on the premises. editions sold only here. Read more on page 19 groundbreaking glass art. Read more on page 25 Read more on page 20-21 Read more on page 28 Read more on page 18 Read more on page 26 31 Glassblower for a day DISTANCE

MÅLERÅS GLASBRUK In many Kingdom of Crystal blowing rooms you can watch skilled 31 Målerås glasbruk 19 Skrufs glasbruk miles glassblowers in action. Are you curious about how arduous it actually 28 Bergdala glasbruk 17 Mickejohans konstglas miles is to work with the blowpipe? How much ingenuity is required to Kosta glasbruk 11 Boda glasbrukE22 30 multifaceted years KOSTA GLASBRUK miles KOOORRERRESTAFORSFORS shape the red-hot molten glass into an object? Try it yourself! 14.5 BERGDALA GLASBRUK BRUKSOMRÅDE Transjö hytta125 Nybro glasbruk SEA GLASBRUK miles at Gullaskruv 25 17 During his years as a glass designer, JFS Johansfors miles Orrefors bruksområde As a glassblower for a day, you can zest and creativity. And it doesn’t require Carlos R Pebaqué has worked with many 16.5 make a traditional handicraft. Accompa- much effort at all to blow; you just TRANSJÖ HYTTA SEA glasbruk miles Pukebergs glasbruk different techniques. He began with glass nied by our glassblowers, you will learn must not inhale. cutting, engraving and blasting. After to shape molten glass at a temperature In the Kingdom of Crystal there attending the National School of Glass in NYBRO GLASBRUK of more than 1,000 degrees C. with a are many ways to try . Orrefors, where he learned hot glass production, BODA PUPUKEBERKBERGG GLASBRUK 25 he developed his own technique for art glass: 25/31 scoop and newspaper. You will blow You can hire a glassblower and make MICKEJOHANS KONSTGLAS into the blowpipe and ”force out” the your designer dreams a reality over the the Cara technique. Carlos’ glass can be JFS JOHANSFORS found throughout the world, and in 2014 he master-piece-in-the-making. You may course of a day or try to blow a crystal SKRUFS GLASBRUK celebrates his 30th anniversary at Gullaskruv. also handle the shears, the tool that bowl of your own. You can also design 122 E22 glassblowers use most. Maybe the result a glass piece, bring along a sketch to 120 will be a little slanted and askew, but Mickejohans Konstglas and have it Glass Art you’ve done it all by yourself and can blown by master glassblower Micke place the vase or bowl on a shelf at Johansson. In case you want to delve vernissage weekend 28 home with pride. deeper into glass craftsmanship, there On the last weekend Most people who try glassblowing want are courses that last several days. in April, the Kingdom of 25-27 Crystal stages its grand to do it again. We often hear: ”This was Glassblowing is a perfect activity Skrufs JFS Boda Micke- Nybro Pukebergs April vernissage weekend. fun. I want to blow some more.” Blowing to engage in with family, a gang of Then you can watch glasbruk Johansfors Artistic studio johans glasbruk glasbruk glass is warm and sweaty work. It calls for buddies or colleagues! glassblowing in severals glassworks, in the Family-owned glass- Multifaceted glass- konstglas Brightly coloured Majestic glassworks concentration and unleashes your creative blowing rooms and glassworks. New middle of The Glass works. Little Skruf works specialising everyday glass setting with old brick exhibitions open, and there are glass Factory interactive In a blowing room makes stylistically in cast glass, drinking hand-painted on site. buildings. Colourful shows, hot-shop herring and do-it-yourself museum. of his own on his farm, pure wine glasses and rum Shop with bargains. glass with a twinkle activities. Museums and galleries also have the master blows and decanters. bottles. Read more on page 30 in the eye. Give glassblowing activities a try at Målerås Glassworks, Skruf Glassworks, Kosta Glass Centre and Mickejohans Konstglas. activities and exhibitions. April 25-27. world-class art glass. Read more on page 24 Read more on page 31 Read more on page 27 Read more on page 23 Reservations at glasriket.se or +46 (0)481-452 15 Read more on page 22

The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 7 KULTUR & DESIGN

The Emigrant Trail Wilhelm Moberg, one of Sweden’s greatest authors, was born in the village of Moshultsmåla in 1898. Fifty years later he published the first part of his epic, The Emigrants, about the Småland emigrant couple, Karl Oskar and Kristina, Circus in the who set out for the Promised Land in the west – America. A 110-kilometer hiking and biking trail takes you through the blowing room district where Karl Oskar and Kristina Handmade paper in grew up. utvandrarleden.se At a Circus Glass Royale performance, circus, music and glassblowing come together – in the blowing room! A pen gliding over a large sheet of paper imparts a luxurious sensation. Writing on handmade paper is something special. In Lessebo you will Circus Glass Royale represents ground- find one of the last works that makes this unique paper. breaking shows in the industrial setting of the glassworks. The ensemble has attracted the heavy wooden is ready. The paper maker then forms one international attention and made guest appea- Stepping through doorway to the Lessebo Handmade sheet after another. They are compressed rances throughout Europe. Paper Mill (Handpappersbruk) is like on a woollen blanket, and the water is In the Kingdom of Crystal they show up in several striding 100 years back in time. The forced out. Then the paper is dried and places with activities and art events. Some of the activities lovely premises with their high ceilings calendered. Finally, every sheet is checked are interactive – at times the audience becomes part of and stone walls date back to 1898. Belts manually. A waffle with homemade jam the show! and cranks power the old machines. in the works’ café concludes the tour. Circus Glass Royale also presents concerts, exhibitions, ”Our newest machine is the drier. It’s In the paper mill’s shop you can make films and talks. The company offers courses for children and from 1920. There are no spare parts to purchases at attractive prices. It sells young people covering the circus, art teaching and learning buy for the machines, so we have to call writing and watercolour paper, envelopes Design in and music. The programme features jugglers, tightrope a blacksmith if we need a replacement,” and small notebooks as well as accessories the Kingdom walkers, acrobatics, do-it-yourself glass art and much more! explains Louise Ivarsson, who owns and such as sealing wax, seal stamps and pens. Circus Glass Royale also conducts workshops on glassblowing, of Crystal operates the works. The works area, which also contains the art glass and circuses for private individuals and companies. In the Kingdom People have made paper by hand here Lessebo Bruk’s mechanical paper manufact- of Crystal creativity since 1693. Today Lessebo is the last uring plant, encompasses many attractive permeates all areas; artists and designers circusglassroyale.se commercial handmade paper mill in cultural buildings. One of them houses create furniture, lamps, art metal work, the Nordic region. the Lessebo Local Folklore Museum. leather goods and much more. The Design ”We are a living cultural heritage. ”We want to have a lot happening in in the Kingdom of Crystal event staged Making paper by hand requires fingertip our premises,” says Louise. ”Among other every autumn offers a multitude of activities with a focus on design. tactility. Our paper makers are experienced things, we have had an art exhibition and have worked here for a long time.” in cooperation with the Lessebo Artists The guided tour begins with the history Association and courses in watercolour Summer evenings surrounding the works and Lessebo. Then painting.” in the blowing room you get to follow the process by which a The Lessebo Handmade Paper Mill During the summer a host of delightful sheet of paper comes into being. Cotton is open Monday through Friday June activities are served up in blowing rooms and linen are ground down with water in 1-August 31. throughout the Kingdom of Crystal. a pulping machine known as a hollander Welcome to a song recital, story night or concert! There’s more information at beater. Starch is added and the paper pulp lessebopapper.se glasriket.se NATURE AND FAMILY

Close contact with

forest and land Fishing in the wilderness In Småland’s wilderness, where You walk on a path cushioned by soft pine needles, surrounded by the peacefulness and forest meets lake, you’ll find Ödevata Fishing Camp. silence of the spruce forest. The air smells of resin and wood. Farther away you glimpse It offers activities year-round for the glistening expanse of a lake. There is a clatter! Sure enough, an elk strides off. families with children as well as for experienced sport fishermen. This is a great place to hike, run and cycle – and Forests cover much of the Kingdom of Hiking trails abound and take you out with food and lodging along the way. get out on the lake, of course. You can Crystal, and there are innumerable lakes. into real wilderness if that’s what you want, Another way to see the Kingdom rent boats, canoes, kayaks, bicycles and Wherever you happen to be, tranquillity but shorter outings also provide close of Crystal is by riding an inspection fishing gear and buy a fishing licence. and nature experiences are just around contact with forest and land. In addition trolley on railway tracks. From Åseda Relax in the sauna or wood-fired hot tub. Various types of accommodations are the corner. You can get out into forests to forests, on your trip you will encounter you can pedal along narrow gauge available at the camp. and the countryside in many ways: hiking, meadowlands, picturesque red-painted tracks to Hultanäs. The round trip odevata.se running or cycling on wilderness trails farms, cosy cafés, flea markets and farm covers 32 km and takes you far into and jogging tracks. On our lakes and shops. the Småland forest – to places roads waterways you can paddle canoes or Cycling in the Kingdom of Crystal is do not reach. There’s a good chance Accept kayaks and ride boats. Perhaps pause at easy. You can rent a bicycle in several that you will see some of the forest’s a beach for a swim and BBQ. In summer places, grab a bike map and hop on the wildlife. If you want to travel in the challenge and autumn the forest is full of berries saddle. There are no less than 19 bicycle even greater comfort, then take - rush along above and mushrooms. Winter draws people trails from which to choose. For both the old 1950s railbus, which has Småland’s nature! to jig-fish and ski or skate. hiking and cycling, you can book packages a café on-board.

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Treetop adventure On horseback At Hägnens Gård Icelandic horses are waiting to take you out into the Småland From the starting tower at a height of 20 metres, you can see for countryside. You will ride in small groups with a guide, and make your way on small kilometres across Kronoparken and the waters of Lake Änghultasjön. roads, forest paths and meadows. The pace You sit securely attached in a harness and take a deep breath. ”Are you is adapted to weather conditions and your riding proficiency. Riding tours are suitable ready? Here we go!” the guide shouts. You feel butterflies in your for both beginners and experienced riders. stomach when you are released. hagnensislandshastar.com

The new zip line course north of Klavre- and roe deer – if the cries and laughter Treasure hunting ström opens at the beginning of summer. from those of you riding are not too loud. Via eleven stations made up of towers, The zip line is suitable for everyone with geocaching trees and cliff ledges, you swish along from ages 7 to 80. There are two courses Geocaching is a modern form of among the treetops. You soar over pools with different degrees of difficulty. The treasure hunting, a fun way to explore new places. With the help of gps – in your and ravines. At the highest point you family course is shorter and takes about smartphone, for example – you look for are 32 metres in the air and reach an hour, while the entire course is 1,550 hidden items known as caches whose a speed of 70 km an hour. When you metres in length, making the adventure coordinates are posted on the Internet. pause at the stations, a guide tells you last twice as long. In the Kingdom of Crystal there are more about nature in Kronoparken and than 4,000 caches. For example, one is Småland wildlife. Travel by zip line is hidden somewhere at the Handmade swedenzipline.se Paper Mill in Lessebo. geocaching.com quiet, increasing the odds of seeing elk

10 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 11 The Children’s HOT-SHOP HERRING Kingdom of Crystal

Most activities in the Kingdom of Crystal can be done at a child’s level, including a try at glassblowing. At The Glass Factory in Boda, children have a section of their own. Here they can dress up as vagabonds and play at being a glassblower in a mini blowing room. They also can Blowing glass engrave and paint their own glass. with children Allow children to express their creativity Småland’s nature invites you to expe- Långasjölamm is home to 100 ewes, in the blowing room! Our experienced rience a number of adventures. Active which produce about 200 lambs in the glassblowers will help children create their families can go on elk safaris, pony rides spring. Groups of children can come own work of art. Suitable for ages 6 and up. and zip lines. Or maybe you will choose here to follow life on a sheep farm. to pedal through the forests on a bicycle You can watch a demonstration of herd Elks trolley along old railway tracks. The dogs and get better acquainted with the The elk is Europe’s largest terrestrial funhouse in gives you a sheep. Other activities include climbing animal. It attains a shoulder height of more chance to burn up the track in go-karts. on straw bales and reading aloud from than two metres, and an adult bull elk weighs The Kingdom of Crystal is full of a book by sheep farmer Malin. It also about 650 kg. Standing eye to eye with such a delightful lakes with excellent swimming is possible to arrange children’s parties big strapping fellow is a powerful experience. areas and jetties. Try catching a fish or at the farm, and in October the village There are plenty of elk in Småland forests, but it is a little easier to see them on an elk safari two as well! There are both indoor and stages a harvest festival. in some of our elk parks. And in the elk shops outdoor swimming pools in several places. you will find every imaginable elk souvenir: meat, plush toys, t-shirts and more. Book your family package at glasriket.se or +46 (0)481-452 15 Kingdom of Crystal Elk Park Hot-shop herring 2014 glasriketsalgpark.se Party in the glass factory

Grönåsens Elk Park Warmth from the furnaces and from the pleasant moosepark.net Pukeberg company. Sing-along and curd cake. Hot-shop herring July 2, 9, 16, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 Aug 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19, 23, 30 in the glassblowing room is more than a meal – it is Sept 6 ,13 ,20, 27 a historical way of making an evening of it! Målerås of the 20th century, times were tough for At the beginning June 28 many Småland residents and some were forced to become July 1, 5, 8, 12, 15, 19, 22, 26, 29 vagabonds. When the glassblowers finished the day’s work in Aug 2, 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, 23, 26, 30 the blowing room, the furnaces were used to prepare food. Sept 6, 13, 20, 27 Fellow workers and hunters from surrounding forests gathered in the warm area around the furnace, and vagabonds also came Bergdala there to warm themselves and get a bite to eat. In return, they May 23 provided the entertainment. June 28 The party night evolved from this tradition. Traditional July 25 Småland food – owen baked herring, crisp-fried bacon, Aug 29 Sept 27 Isterband sausage and baked potatoes – is prepared in the annealing furnaces in the blowing room. To round it off, you munch on genuine Småland curd cake. There’s no Kosta chance that you will leave a hot-shop herring evening hungry! May 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 30, 31 While you eat well, the glassblowers and musicians provide June 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 26, 27, 28 entertainment. You also will get a chance to try your July 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31 Aug 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14,15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 hand at glassblowing. Sept 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 Oct 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 Nov 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 Book your hyttsill package with lodging at glasriket.se or +46 (0)481-452 15

12 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 13 Essential sugar rush THE GOOD LIFE In the forest outside Örsjö there is an English tea salon - The Tea Room Ällebäck. In grandmother sofas you can enjoy afternoon tea with scones, canapés and cakes. thetearoomalleback.hemsida24.se

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work of art The Kingdom of Crystal – for those with a yen for shopping Christa’s Choklad Christa’s chocolate workshop is a feast for both the eyes and the palate. Kosta Boda Art Hotel has the good life in condensed Book a workshop with friends and learn form – food, relaxation, art and shopping. The joy of shopping to make truffles, fillings and pralines. If you want to taste Christa’s own masterpieces, you will find them The hotel is a living showroom where the focus is on art glass. If you have a yen for shopping, the Kingdom of Crystal is the place at Vissefjärda Café. Kosta Boda’s famous artists have designed the common areas and hotel to be. Here you will find a large selection of furnishings, household christaschoklad.se rooms. You can sleep beneath Ulrica Hydman-Vallien’s unmistakable figures utensils, lighting, art metal work, leather goods and other handicrafts or mingle with Åsa Jungnelius’ large format nail polishes in the bathroom. Linnéa Restaurant serves the best Småland has to offer: local ingredients – and then, of course, glass that is truly unique! Much of it is the work Farm shops with charm from forest, field and lake assembled into exquisite meals – and of course of gifted designers and can be purchased at attractive prices. Ateljé Vidagård is a farm shop and café served on glass . In the cobalt-blue Glass Bar, a futuristic atmosphere outside Skruv. Kristina and daughter Jennie, prevails. Here you can have a drink, eat something light and enjoy dancing both with glass painting backgrounds, sell In the glassblowing rooms there are assemble street merchants from various hand-painted children’s furniture of their and music. shops with exhibitions of unique articles parts of Småland. own design. In the shop you will also find The spa and relaxation section has both indoor and outdoor pools, sold nowhere else. You have a great chance There you have a chance to come several kinds of sauna and exercise facilities with a gym. In the large other furnishings. of finding quality products at bargain across handmade elves, locally produced ateljevidagard.com indoor pool you actually swim above a glass exhibition! You can choose prices in the glassworks’ factory outlets. sausages and other handicrafts. In Nybro among many lovely spa treatments – and maybe try a glass massage? Kosta Outlet is a 20,000-square-metre market trading takes place every Tuesday, A rustic style prevails in the inspiring In the hotel, which celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2014, shopping mecca. You will find clothing, Thursday and Saturday. In Emmaboda Butik Norregård. In the large red barn in there is art everywhere. Something catches your fancy? shoes and sporting goods from leading the square is filled with merchants on Långasjö, you can shop for both new and Just say you’ll take it – all the hotel furnishings are for sale! international brands as well as furnishings Wednesdays and Saturdays. vintage furnishings as well as accessories. And on the tea veranda, you can enjoy The Kingdom and design from Design House Stockholm All around the Kingdom of Crystal a snack. of Crystal offers all sorts and Ittala, among others. Kosta Boda’s there are flea markets, antique shops and butiknorregard.se Book your hotel stay at glasriket.se or +46 (0)481-452 15 of accommodations: large glass shop also is located here. farm shops where you will find unusual hotels, bed & breakfasts, Christmas and autumn markets paraphernalia. See the entire list at glasriket.se hostels, flats, cottages or camping.

The cobalt-blue Glass Bar Culinary art at Linnéa Restaurant Swim among artwork Fanciful at Transjö Hytta Luscious sweets from Christa Rustic shopping at Norregård

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The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 15 Grains of Gold in the Kingdom of Crystal

Kosta Bad & Camping Bergdala Glasbruk Madesjö Stay Kosta Bad & Camping is located in One of Sweden’s oldest glassworks, Hembygdsmuseum JFS Johansfors the heart of the Kingdom of Crystal. founded in 1889, with the Kingdom Sweden’s largest homestead museum Passion for glassware and rum. Minihotell Cafeteria and tempered swimming of Crystal’s most authentic wooden in the old church stables at Madesjö Johansfors The hotel is located next to Hindsjön pool with free admission for campsite blowing room. Located in a picturesque with 10,000 objects and several unique jfs-johansfors.se Astrid Lindgren’s World Öland by Småland’s culture route. Housed guests. A total of 80 camping pitches, historical industrial setting. Glass- environments from the 19th century castle in a former police station. Try staying including 50 with electricity and 8 blowing. Shop. onward. Experience much of the old Målerås glasbruk cottages. In Vimmerby you will meet Emil, Pippi, The imposing castle by Kalmar Strait has a Cross the Öland bridge to another world. in a cell of your own. All rooms have Bergdala peasant community. Magic in crystal. Innovative and a shower and WC. Open year-round. Kosta, 0478-505 17, 0478-316 50, www.studioglas.se Mardie and other favourite characters dramatic and martial history. The structure, On this limestone island you will encounter Nybro, 0481-179 35 exciting design. Here you will find Alsterbro, 0481-533 02 www.glasriketkosta.se www.hembygd.se/madesjo-orsjo- art glass, jewellery, bowls, dishes and from the stories. The joys of play rule here. which dates back to the 12th century, was rebuilt unique natural surroundings – beautiful beaches, www.alsterbrominihotell.se Bergdala glas, kristvalla much more. Exhibition, restaurant Romp away in Matt’s Fort and Villekulla in the 16th century into a splendid renaissance bewitching forests and southern Öland’s cultural Kosta Boda Art Hotel Strömbergshyttan and hyttsill (hot-shop herring). Cottage! Scenes from the books are castle by the Vasa kings. Today concerts, landscape, a World Heritage site that includes BestWestern The hotel that explodes in colour, form, Exciting shop with a large selection Zipline Adventure Målerås, 0481-314 01 Hotel Royal Corner enjoyment and tastes. Kosta Boda’s re- of studio glassware, ceramics and A 2-hour adventure at heights of up www.matsjonasson.com played out, and there’s a chance you exhibitions and other events take place here. the plain of Alvaret. The island is full of cultural nowned glass designers have designed art. Original design and hand Enjoy excellent accommodations to 30 metres in the deep forest. Total everything from the bar to the billowing craftsmanship. might wind up in the middle of a hunt Courageous visitors venture out on ghost relics such as Viking graves and windmills. Those in central Växjö with a wonder- of 11 stations, one 1.5-km-long run. Two Mickejohans Konstglas hammocks made entirely of glass as Hovmantorp guides included. 1 km from highway for Pippi by officers Kling & Klang. walks or a tour of the dungeons. seeking entertainment can amuse themselves ful relax ation area and exciting well as a wonderful spa area with Master glassblower Micke Johansson’s experience package. The city’s 0478-310 55, www.studioglas.se 31. Booking at www.littlerocklake.com own new blowing room at home alv.se kalmarslott.se with everything from wildlife parks to nightclubs. several pools, where you can find broad range of shops and attractions everything you could desire for body Klavreström, www.littlerocklake.com on the farm in Örsjö. olandsturist.se within walking distance. and soul. Carlos R. Pebaqué Design AB Örsjö, 0481-124 09 Växjö, 0470-70 10 00 Kosta, 0478-34830 Glass artist Carlos R. Pebaqué Rosdala shop www.mickejohankonstglas.se www.royalcorner.se combines classic Swedish style with www.kostabodaarthotel.se Welcome to the lamp shop in the South American temperament and Astrid Kingdom of Crystal. Cosy shop & café Nybro glasbruk has created a new art glass technique: in works setting. Visit our complete Hand-painted art glass at its best! Lindgrens Bussamåla Quality Hotel Växjö ”CARA” – a way to paint in glass. Bed and Breakfast, youth hostel, glassworks museum or book our There is something here for every Värld A pleasant family & conference hotel. camping, café and restaurant, indoor Gullaskruv popular hyttsill (hot-shop herring). occasion and purpose, with colour GOTLAND Easily accessible and with good parking paintball, conferences, pool, animals 0481 32117, www.carlosartglass.com and design in a timeless, enthralling facilities. By the gateway to the King- Norrhult, 070-98 95 444 A day-trip and beautiful nature: Bussamåla [email protected] design idiom. Welcome! dom of Crystal. has everything for an unforgettable Kristina’s Duvemåla www.rosdalabutiken.se Nybro, 0481-428 81 holiday. Växjö, 0470-70 72 00, www.choice.se Enjoy a cup of coffee with homemade www.nybro-glasbruk.se Vissefjärda, 0471-200 24 baked goods in a beautiful natural 23 inspection Solvikens Pensionat setting. Marvel at tales about Smalspåret – www.bussamala.com trolleyThe year 2014 offers many Orrefors bruksområde away Moberg and the people who lived Romantic guesthouse south of Växjö. opportunities to take a nostalgic One of the world’s best-known Here you will enjoy a harmonious in the village. Open June – August. train trip from Åseda and Virserum, glassworks and trademarks. Art Calmar Stadshotell and beautiful setting, eat well-cooked Emmaboda, 0471-24 90 48 both on summer Sundays and at gallery with historical exhibition. Calmar Stadshotell is located in food and sleep well in distinctively DISTANCE www.emmaboda.se other times! From both Åseda and Large glassworks with glass for sale. VÄXJÖ the heart of Kalmar by Stortorget. furnished rooms. Close to attractions. Here modern technology meets Virserum you can ride an inspection Orrefors, 0481-341 89 Astrid Ingelstad, 0470-382 80 Kosta Kosta 77 historic charm in venerable buildings. Hauges Hantverksglas, trolley out into the dense forests www.orrefors.se Nybro miles Lindgrens Värld www.solvikens.com past glittering lakes. In Virserum 25 Charming and relaxing surroundings Kulltorp 23 you can hop on without booking! 43.5 meeting high standards. Environment-friendly transformation KALMAR Kosta miles Kalmar castle Pukeberg glasbruk Kalmar, 0480-49 69 00 Villa Nostalgia, of bottles into art glass. Blowing room, Åseda, Virserum, 0495-10808, Pukeberg is one of Sweden’s oldest and Kosta 51.5 Öland www.profilhotels.com Rum/Room/Zimmer shop, gallery. www.smalsparet.nu best-preserved glassworks. For more 28 miles Stay with us in one of our four Hours: weekdays 2/5-22/12, 10:00-17:00. than 130 years glass has been made Smålandet E22 ÖLAND Kosta 96.5 Smålandet Emmaboda charming, newly renovated rooms Weekends in July 11:00-16:00. At other The Glass Factory here in different forms, from everyday miles times, by arr. GPS N57° 5’ 33”/E 15° 38’ 17” glassware, lighting fixtures and glass Camping & Bad – centrally located in Nybro! Access to The Nordic region’s largest collection of communal kitchen as well as bathroom Kulltorp, 0481-660 299 art glass with historical and contempo- for petrol pumps to beautiful art glass. Picturesque lodging on campsite or in with shower and WC. Multipurpose www.glasweb.se/hauge rary Swedish glass! Six glass exhibitions. Nybro, 0481-107 29 cottages. Indoor pool with water slide, room. Large terrace and free parking. Glassblowing in the blowing room! www.hyttsillen.com KARLSKRONA climbing wall, whirlpool bath, obstacle Welcome! Shopping! Exhibition, playhouse and course, mini golf, beach volleyball. Also Outlet Nybro, 0730-41 87 17 studio activity for children! camping at Boda, tel: +46 (0)70 279 82 60. Here you can shop for Nordic design SEA glasbruk www.nostalgia.lemone.se Emmaboda: +46 (0)471 24 90 90. products under a single roof. Iittala, Boda glasbruk, 0471-249360 For 50 years SEA Glassworks has THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT FROM GLASBYN MÅLERÅS Emmaboda, 0471 24 90 90 Rörstrand, Höganäs Keramik, Arabia, www.theglassfactory.se created timeless classics, always with www.emmaboda.se Fiskars and Hackman contribute to a a beautiful combination of form and Do pleasant and functional home. function. Here you will find brightly Smålandet – Moose safari in Markaryd Kosta, 0487-504 22 coloured bowls, elegant lanterns and FruGans Bed & Breakfast glassworks beautiful vases. • Moose and bison safari Astrid Lindgrens Näs www.iittalaoutlet.se you can discover the King of the Across from Örsjö Church you will Kosta, 0478-503 10 Along the three kilometre winding forest road, stay in finely furnished rooms with Astrid Lindgren’s childhood home Bergdala glasbruk where all of her authorship had its Johansfors Gallery www.seaglasbruk.se Forest and American bison close up. • Café dating back to the eighteenth century natural beds and free Wi-Fi close One of Sweden’s oldest glassworks, origin. Large interactive exhibition of to us and our pets. Homemade Studio art glass from England, founded in 1889, with the Kingdom her life and works. Pleasant gardens, Skrufs glasbruk The farm of Smålandet has a heritage from the 1700’s, surrounded in natural beauty. • Souvenir gift shop breakfast bread. Lake, forest, glass- Scotland and the Nordic region. of Crystal’s most authentic wooden shop and café. Household glassware. Swedish works and elk park nearby. Broakulla, Emmaboda, 0471-40119, blowing room. Located in a picturesque You may enjoy a delicious freshly baked waffle or try an elk sausage from Café Smålandet. design. All made in Skruf. • Goat pen Vimmerby, 0492-76 94 00, www.johansforsgallery.com historical industrial setting. Glass- Örsjö, Nybro, 073-5104664, www.astridlindgrensnas.se Glassblowing on all weekdays. Meanwhile, the children can visit the goat pen and play with the goats. www.frugans.net blowing. Shop. Skruf, 0478-201 33 Kosta Glascenter Bergdala www.skrufsglasbruk.se Astrid Lindgren’s World 0478-316 50, www.studioglas.se Grimsnäs Herrgård At Kosta Glass Centre you can enlist Where fairy tales come true! Astrid the help of a guide to blow your Countryside lodging in beautiful natural Lindgren’s World offers experiences own bowl or drinking glass with or Transjö Hytta Sweden’s only elk surroundings. B & B, youth hostel Boda for both young and old. All who have without colour. You can also attend You can find unique art glass and summer restaurant open in the The blowing room inside The Glass park where you can grown up with Astrid Lindgren’s stories short weekend courses or a five-day in small limited editions here. evenings. Everything is organic to Factory glass museum is a small- will feel right at home in the park’s summer course. Welcome! An artists’ centre where masters the extent possible. Fully licensed. scale glass enterprise where the experience elk in their surroundings. push the envelope and create Kosta, 0706-846191, focus is on creativity and flexibility. Grimsnäs Herrgård, Ljuder, Skruv Vimmerby, 0492 798 00, www.alv.se glass with great artistic content. natural setting from 0478-20400, www.grimsnas.se [email protected] Boda, 0471-24 93 60 Kosta, 0478-507 00 your own car or the www.theglassfactory.se BSWEDEN Kulturparken Småland www.transjohytta.se safari train. Hotel Packhuset Bsweden Belysningsbolaget designs The hotel is in an old harbour ware- and manufactures trendsetting lamps Sveriges glasmuseum Kosta glasbruk house dating back to the 18th century that become classics. You are welcome Welcome to Sweden’s Museum Sweden’s oldest glassworks with a long located right by the quay in the Kalmar to visit our factory outlet in Herråkra, of Glass. Beautifully situated in design tradition. Art glass exhibition, guest harbour. 87 rooms, many with a where you can find bargains among the museum park in central Växjö. works shops, glassblowing, guided sea view and balcony. We always serve merchandise seconds. A museum focusing on historical tours. Situated next to Kosta Outlet, with fashion, shoes and sporting a free evening buffet! Herråkra, Holma gård, and contemporary Swedish glass. goods for sale. Kalmar, 0480-570 00 13 km from Lenhovda Växjö, 0470-70 42 00 www.hotelpackhuset.se 0474-230 40, www.bsweden.com www.kulturparkensmaland.se Kosta, 0478-345 29, www.kostaboda.se

The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 17 Transjö hytta Orrefors bruksområde

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18 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 19 Kosta glasbruk

Glassblowing, sales Open year-round Tel Kosta Boda +46 (0)478-345 32, Outlet Hem +46 (0)478-34608, Art Gallery +46 (0)478-345 29 kostaboda.se

Shop away Kosta’s works area is a real mecca for those who enjoy shopping. There are shops here for both glass and other designer Brains, Bertil Vallien Brains,Bertil Angels, Kjell Engman Kjell Angels, Landing, Bertil Vallien Bertil Landing, products as well as a large outlet with Vallien BlueHydman moodUlrica at Kosta,Vallien, MarttiBertil Rytkönen,Jungnelius, Åsa Anna Ehrner, leather goods, shoes, sports equipment and more. Restaurants and snacks will help you maintain a high energy level. Kosta – World-renowned playfulness

Kosta is one of our best-known Kosta Boda stands for colourful and bold glassworks – and also Sweden’s oldest. glass that grabs one’s attention. The Since its founding in 1742, many beautiful glass is created by designers who are glass articles – both art glass and known throughout the world. They have everyday glassware – have been a passion for pushing the envelope of Unique glass art produced in the blowing room amid the what can be done with glass and Glass in every direction Småland forest. A guided tour of the developing new design idioms and Angels are a recurring theme in the The third sculpture is the philosophic Bruno Mathsson’s Glass Houses Kosta is almost like a single large exhibition. glassworks gives you a piece of Swedish techniques – all in close collaboration art of Kjell Engman. One example is the and creative Thinker. In the blowing room you see the production, and Småland cultural history. In the with skilled glass artisans. Angels, a limited edition of graceful More down-to-earth perhaps is the In the vicinity the Kosta Exhibition Hall displays current blowing room you can follow the The Kosta name brings to mind beings in painted clear glass with frosted Cupcake series by Anna Ehrner. The bowls, • Kosta Outlet • Kosta Glascenter, hands-on activities glass art and at Kosta Boda Art Hotel seven production process from melting of the designers like Bertil Vallien and Ulrica wings that are suspended in a stand. which give a nod to today’s culinary trends, • Kosta Boda Art Hotel of the glass- works’ designers have put their molten glass to glassblowing, cutting Hydman-Vallien, who are known for their Bertil Vallien, perhaps the most well- come in ethereal colours like turquoise, • Bruno Mathsson’s Glass Houses stamp on the rooms and the common areas. and painting. You can also try your hand daring glass art. Åsa Jungnelius belongs known Swedish glass artist, has created deep purple and cornflower blue. • Kosta Bad & Camping In April the Kosta Art Gallery Store will be at blowing glass and take advantage of to the younger generation of artists. Landing. The work displays a spaceship For those who want to drink their • Grönåsens Moose Park opened. The glassworks’ old villa has been the chance to experience a really festive She creates glamorous glass in the form landing on a foreign planet at dawn, champagne with extra flair, the Open • On Tour in the Kingdom of Crystal, bicycle trail transformed into premises to showcase art evening in the form of traditional hyttsill of lipstick, nail polish and shoes. Kosta leading one to wonder what daylight will Minds series designed by Ulrica Hydman- • Kosta jogging tracks, run or hike glass by Kosta Boda’s well-known artists. (hot-shop herring). Boda’s art glass, very rare specimens reveal ... Bertil’s Brains is a trio of sculpted Vallien has been expanded with a The art works also can be purchased here. Today glass is made at the glassworks or in limited editions, is something faces, with Blues representing melancholy, champagne glass. The characteristic Inauguration in April. for the Kosta Boda and Orrefors brands. truly special for connoisseurs. while Sunny is extroverted and positive. visage adorns the stem of the glass.

20 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 21 Mickejohans konstglas Pukebergs glasbruk

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glass into his own hands Pukeberg Glassworks was founded in they can be purchased in the shop located 1871. The picturesque historical industrial right next to the blowing room. And they Micke Johansson is the master structures characterise the works. setting is well preserved and invites a stroll. are not sold anywhere else! The shop is glassblower who built his own blowing “I prefer to vary the style and type of The area has been a meeting place for art, large, and the shelves are guaranteed to Nybro town centre Lars Larsson Art Metal Work room at home on his farm outside Örsjö. objects: I make vases, drinking glasses, handicrafts, woodwork and design, among hold the perfect gift. The shop also has Just to be able to create in his own way. bowls and sculptures. Everything is other things, and many artists have their classic clear glass. With a little luck, you In the vicinity Micke bubbles over with the joy and blown free-hand,” Micke says. • Qvarnaslät Local History Association, In the vicinity studios here. At Pukeberg Glassworks the might find that drinking glass that will museum, café love of glass craftsmanship. The key is to The blowing room has become a • The Tea Room Ällebäck, café bottom floor houses an exhibition with complete your set of tableware from • Madesjö Church Stables, have fun, and that is obvious in his art. meeting place. Designers come here local folklore museum • Örsjö Church glass from the works’ long history. the 1960s. with sketches, and together with Micke, • Sandbergs Konditori (patisserie) • The Kingdom of Crystal’s Moose Park Study the object, and as time goes by, Glass from Pukeberg sparkles with colour. Proximity to the blowing room means • Nybro town centre, market trading • Lars Larsson Art Metal Work you will find more and more playful they turn their ideas into reality. Many old ”We experiment a lot with colours and that you, as a visitor, can get close to the • Choo Choo Train • Mogador Store, flea market and subtle details. glassblowers look in to chat for a while. glassblowing. It also means that new how they can be used in glass,” Pukeberg’s • Ria Second Hand • Fru Gans Bed & Breakfast The inspiration comes from Mother As a visitor, you also are welcome to stop Mattias Ripheden comments. articles keep appearing on shelves in • Kristvallaslingan, bicycle trail Earth. Micke creates joyful birds and fish, by the blowing room. In the blowing room master glassblower the shop. If there’s something special you but also depicts the negative impacts we “It is really super when people come Gunne Brandstedt fashions unique objects want, speak up. Maybe you can get your have on our world. Colour and different here and follow my work,” Micke says. in small series. As soon as they have cooled, favourite vase in just the colour you want!

22 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 The Kingdom of Crystal 2014 23 Nybro glasbruk SEA glasbruk

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Hand-painted Function and form Firmly rooted in Swedish design droplets. Cork elements reinforce a sense of favourites traditions, SEA makes everyday articles the sea and lake. The series consists of vases, – bowls, dishes and drinking glasses – that bowls, candle lanterns, jars and decanters. Madesjö Church Stables The classic herring boat is brought that are meant to be used,” says Nybro are meant to be used. All articles have a Aqua represents utilitarian articles of out for midsummer celebrations in many Glassworks’ Åke Ernstsson. function, and the assortment is easy to handblown glass, and they are intended Grönåsens Moose Park In the vicinity Swedish homes. But Nybro Glassworks Painting is the heart of the operation. make your own. for everyday use. • Madesjö Church Stables, keeps on creating new favourites for us! ”Our handicraft is painted glass. Our deft ”You should dare to use our things,” SEA’s ”With Aqua we want to contribute local history museum In the vicinity For example, the somewhat zany skull glass painters make every little detail in Johan Linde says. ”If something happens to towards more beautiful everyday life.” • Sandbergs Konditori (patisserie) • Kosta Outlet motif in the Memento Mori series. the patterns. Everything is painted by break, it shouldn’t be the end of the world.” SEA was founded outside Kosta in the • Kristvallaslingan bicycle trail • Kosta Boda Art Hotel, • The Kingdom of Crystal’s Moose Park The Twist series, with the clean lines hand here at the glassworks in Nybro,” Drawing inspiration from water in all of its 1950s. The name comes from the initials spa, hotel and restaurant • Hägnen’s Iceland Horses of its graphic stripes, and the graceful Åke continues. forms, structures and nuances of colour, of the last names of the founders: Inge • Grönåsens Moose Park floral pattern in the Provence collection Nybro Glassworks is the only designer Björn Nilsson has created the Aqua Samuelsson, Sven Ernstsson and Tore • On Tour, bicycle trail brighten up everyday life on bowls, glassworks located in a sizable town. series. A soothing palette in shades of blue Andersson. SEA’s glass pepper mills drinking glasses, dishes and candlesticks. Just a short walk away is the centre and green with a design idiom and graphic became a best-seller and typified the ”We make modern utilitarian articles of Nybro, with shopping and cafés. decor that bring to mind waves and water works’ palmy days.

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Glassblowing sales Sales at Bergdala & Strömbergshyttan Open June-August Open year-round [email protected] Tel +46 (0)478-316 50 Bergdala jfs-johansfors.se studioglas.se (bergdalastudioglas.se was launched during the spring of 2014)

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Idyllic glassworks setting H Bergdala offers visitors a traditional glassworks setting. Trees and greenery frame red buildings and old worker Art at the glassworks dwellings. Bergdala Wärdshus, a stone’s throw from the blowing room, offers a There’s more than new and old restaurant, hostel, conference facilities glass at Johansfors. You can also Råmm bottle and glasses, Lennart Chytraéus Lennart glasses, and bottle Råmm and organic garden. In October the view art exhibitions with paintings Småland autumn market bows in with and sculpture. street merchants and exhibitions. Tradition and the future At one of the Kingdom of Crystal’s to the design effort. oldest glassworks, longstanding tradition ”We believe in Swedish glass, and A passion for glass and rum and knowledge unite with new forms and everything is made here in Småland. design. Bergdala conveys a sense of what In 2014 a new assortment is being The latest novelty in the Kingdom of and pots blown at the JFS Johansfors it was like at a glassworks in the past. launched, which is very exciting.” Crystal is a passionate melding of glass, glassworks. They were designed by Nina Authenticity prevails here – the blowing Bergdala is perhaps best known for craftsmanship, music – and rum! Nørgaard especially for Noma. room was built in 1889 and is made its best-selling Blå Kant (Blue Rim), glass ”JFS stands for Johansfors Future Spirit. It’s ”Food and wine always have interested entirely of wood. tableware that can be found in many all about the spirit of the future and me,” Nina says. ”Being allowed to collabo- But that doesn’t mean that belief in Swedish homes. Glass lighting is another preserving and developing glass crafts- rate with talented chefs and sommeliers the future and fresh ideas are lacking. specialty at Bergdala. manship,” says JFS’ Magnus Elgquist. gives my work a deeper meaning.” Café Maja Bergdala Glassworks is looking ahead ”You can produce fantastic visual Hagaslätt Raceway, Go-karts JFS makes both everyday glassware and The other leg supporting JFS operations with a focus on art glass. sensations with light. At an early stage In the vicinity unique art glass, all handmade by skilled is rum production. The combination ”We are now associating with new we began working with those effects.” • Johansfors Crystal Museum In the vicinity glassblowers at Johansfors. One of the of glass and rum provides us with the designers to achieve diversification,” Visits to the blowing room are • 25:ans Loppis, Eriksmåla, flea market • Bergdala Wärdshus Bergdala’s Jinny Wang says. ”We want welcome. You can take part in guided designers is Lennart Chytraéus, essentially exclusive bottle in which JFS First Limited • Majas Café • Swimming in Lake Hedasjön tours, and in the shop you will find all a ceramicist who now uses glass as a Edition RÅMM is sold. • Björkhagas Café • Hagaslätt Raceway, Go-kart to find a different design idiom and to material. He works a great deal with glass ”We have a passion for craftsmanship • Duvemåla • Röda Huset, café, shop and lodging thereby create new products.” the elegant products made in the works. Designers collaborating with Bergdala Bergdala also has a shop in Strömbergs- pieces cast in the furnace, often with a in all of its manifestations. We’re proud of • The Moberg Stone, • Bicycle trail: On Tour in the Kingdom of Crystal Moshult, Wilhelm Moberg’s birthplace weighty and serious mien intermixed with our partners who share this enthusiasm, • Lessebo Handmade Paper Mill include Lars Sestervik, Björn Ekegren and hyttan, where you can buy both glass and • Boda Smide, iron and glass Mimmi Trinh Silesius. Bergdala’s own ceramics. And of course, hyttsill (hot-shop playful messages. like our neighbours, Målerås Läder, who glassblowers, with their solid experience herring) is set up at Bergdala with its own One of the world’s very best restaurants, make the excellent box for our rum,” and feeling for glass, also are contributing menu in an authentic setting. Noma in Copenhagen, uses coffee cups Magnus adds.

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Glass of the future Bargain hunt for clean lines surrounded by history In the factory shop you can find bargains The glass show in the blowing room at Boda with artist Peter Hermansson The Boda blowing room located inside among Skruf’s beautiful glassware. Every The Glass Factory museum is the month there are special offers on some product. museum’s hot, pulsating heart! It In summer the glassworks’ café is open. serves as a creative meeting place to which national and international craftsmen, artists and designers are The Glass Factory: invited to experiment and find new Swedish Glass modes of expression. a living museum Since the autumn of 2013, the – Crystal Clear operation has been run by the artist The Glass Factory is the museum that collection of art glass in the Nordic region. Åsa Jungnelius in cooperation with invites intimate contact with glass and the In the museum works by recognised glass Skruf Glassworks stands for beautiful and its best side – such as in Parliament and the museum. making of glass. artists are on display alongside thesis classic decanters, drinking glasses, candlesticks in Swedish embassies abroad – the table ”Småland has a long tradition of ”Glass and the history of the Kingdom of works from the University College of Arts, and bowls. All in handblown, clear glass made is set with this kind of tableware. making glass,” Åsa says. ”Production Crystal are brought to life through films, Crafts and Design and the National School in the blowing room at Skruf. The glassworks Matilda Ringnér is another Skruf Grimsnäs Herrgård by hand, based on crafts know-how exhibitions, theatre and workshops,” of Glass at Orrefors. Children have a section is owned and operated by the Elm family. designer. She achieved her breakthrough passed down from generation to Museum Director Maja Heuer explains. of their own where they can engrave and The entire family works at the glassworks. with the Rainman wine decanter. Other In the vicinity generation, lives on in the region. Boda ”Unique film clips introduce you to artists paint their own glass. ”We are a small, independent glassworks designers who work with the glassworks are • Glass museum is the right place to create a platform and glassworkers past and present. Travel In 2014 Boda celebrates its 150th anni- that focuses on genuine craftsmanship. If Sofia Bergman and Carina Seth Andersson. • Skruvs Loppis, flea market for artistic work, with the point of back to the 1960s, when glass design evolved versary, a milestone commemorated by The you want to be sure you are buying Swedish Carina’s Hope pitcher and glass, which was • The Emigrant Trail, biking and hiking trail departure being glass as a material.” in entirely new and unexpected directions Glass Factory through exhibitions of historical glass, this is where you should come,” says made at Skruf, won Elle Interiör magazine’s • On Tour in the Kingdom of Crystal, bicycle trail As a visitor, you are welcome to – feel the brisk winds of change! At the glass by artists such as Monica Backström as the glassworks’ managing director, Kent Elm. 2013 prize for the year’s best interior • Grimsnäs Herrgård, hotel, restaurant watch the artists and glassblowers in museum’s various theme tours for children well as a Turkish glass exhibit. The museum One of the country’s best-known accessory. • Skruvs Vildmarkscamping, action. If that inspires you, you can try and adults, you can take part in the most also showcases young, innovative artists designers, Ingegerd Råman, has created ”Our designers appreciate working fishing, swimming area blowing your own glass in one of the secret tales of the Kingdom of Crystal.” such as Daniel Diamant, Nina Westman, several stylistically pure glass place settings close to the glassblowers, which they museum’s workshops. The Glass Factory has the largest Matilda Kästel and Maria Johansson. for Skruf. When Sweden wants to display can do here,” Kent Elm says.

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