Art Consulting Scandinavia:Applied Arts/Design/Crafts

HADELANDSGLASS 1850-1900.

Author: Jens W. Berg
Country:
Language: Norwegian
Year Published:
No. of pages: 80
Illustrations: 87 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8”x 5”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 8270030414
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 2643

Price: $29.50

In 1850 the Hadesland Glass Company began to produce beautiful glass of the highest quality, cut glass, etched glass, wineglasses, carafes, bottles, vases, plates, and even an unusual carafe in the shape of a dog. This book gives a historical overview of the glass company through 1900.

HADELANDSGLASS 1900-1950.

Author: Jens W. Berg
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 80
Illustrations: 6 Color Illustrations. 89 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8”x 6”
Weight:
ISBN: 9788270031832
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 2642

Price: $26.50

This book shows us the exquisite glass produced by the Hadeland Glassworks, including very fine etched glass, glass services, chandeliers, and much beautiful colored glass. We see very traditional glass in the early part of this century to very striking contemporary glass designed in more recent times by well-known designers like Wilhelm Johansson or Sverre Pettersen.

HAGLUND, BIRGER SILVERSMED (Silversmith).

Author: Werkelid, Carl Otto and Helena Dahlbäck Lutteman
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 103
Illustrations: 50 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound w/ jacket
Size: 10 1/2”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9172031646
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 3705

Price: $75.00

The simplicity and craftsmanship of this renowned silversmith’s holloware and jewelry is something for the eye to behold. These simple forms radiate an elegance that reveals his lifetime experience in crafting objects from silver. This book delves into the full range of his work, beginning with complicated, organic pieces in the 1940s and culminating with his more refined simplistic works of the 1990s.

HAIRWORK IN THE ZORN COLLECTIONS.

Author: Sandström, Birgitta
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 1995
No. of pages: 24
Illustrations: 8 Color Illustrations. 2 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 6”x 7”
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: 9197251909
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Cat. of exh.
Code: 6034

Price: $19.50

This small booklet documents the tradition of hairwork in Sweden. It describes everything from the beginning of hairwork in Dalarna dating back to the first decades of the nineteenth century and the origin on horse hairwork proposed to have spawned from the human hair work in the regions north of Lake Siljan. There are black and white as well as color images of people dating back to the mid 1800s wearing various hairwork.

HALLWYLSKA SILVERSAMLINGEN/ The Hallwyl Collection of Silver.

Author: Cassel-Pihl, Eva Helena, Kersti Holmquist & Marie Jansson-Lohse, eds
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/ English
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 311
Illustrations: 33 Color Illustrations. 187 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Gilded with grey velvet hardbound cover/ leather spine
Size: 11 1/2”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 9163081210
Biblio/Bio: Index. Bibl.
Code: 4181

Price: $165.00

Wilhemina von Hallwyl was a dedicated collector with a very wide range of collecting interests. This book documents her expansive international silver collection displayed in the Hallwyl Museum in Stockholm. The most important components of the collection include the beakers and spoons, a group of ecclesiastical art objects, utility items, personal articles from the Hallwyl family, as well as the collection’s glories: a bowl from 1558, one of the oldest dated silver objects in Sweden; a teapot, a masterpiece made in 1720 by Andreas Lorentzon Wall; as well as a dish made in 1651 by the Dutch goldsmith Johannes Lutma. Gorgeous photographs supplement this catalog of nearly 800 items, from Sweden, Germany, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Siebengurgia, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Includes an index of masters.