Carat
Crystal cut vases
Design Lena Bergström
Orrefors 2020
Om Bergström
Svenskan är ett kargt språk som saknar det engelska språkets artist i betydelsen skicklig yrkesutövare. Lena Bergström är skicklig yrkesutövare i det att hon saknar vördnad inför konstarternas skiljelinjer – hon går där hon vill och hon är redo att gå vart som helst, om hon finner det nödvändigt, för allt onödigt är henne onödigt. Hon går med stil och med precision som ett urverk, eller som en jokk, graciöst och kraftfullt, no matter what, ett uttryck som inte heller finns på svenska.
Men svenskan är ändå vacker med sitt formgivare, fast Bergström giver mera (och hellre) kropp än hon ger form, är kroppsgivare åt de skilda material hon så resolut hanterar i yrket. Om det nu är ett yrke och inte allenast utlevelse av lust, av åtrå till material, färg, form och – kropp.
I en vintrig trädgård är det inte dött, den knappt vilar ens. Den väntar med åtrå till våren, allenast.
Dan Wolgers
Pluto candle holder
Crystal and steel
Design Lena Bergström
Kosta Boda 2018
O-time watch
Cutted glass, steal and leather.
Design Lena Bergström
Orrefors 2018 / In collaboration with Ur & Penn.
Buy O-time at www.uropenn.se
“Ett armbandsur från Orrefors bör såklart ha ett glas med slipade fasetter”, säger designern Lena Bergström. Hon syftar givetvis på Orrefors långa tradition med den slipade kristallen. “Så jag koncentrerarade mig på just glaset. Det skulle vara smycket på klockan.” I de elegant slipade fasetterna speglar sig omgivningen. Och beroende på valet av färg på urtavlan blir reflektionerna i fasetterna olika. Armbandet i läder och det rena urverket i stål binder samman känslan av exklusiva och tidlösa material. “Jag ville att armbandsuret skulle vara unisex, vackert och tidlöst. Helt enkelt en klocka jag själv vill ha.”
“A wristwatch from Orrefors should of course have a glass of cut facets,” says designer Lena Bergström. She obviously refers to Orrefors long tradition with cut crystal. “So I concentrated on the glass. It would be the jewelry on the watch.”In the elegantly ground facets, the surroundings reflect. And depending on the choice of color on the dial, the reflections in the facets are different. The leather bracelet and the clean steel ring make up the feel of exclusive and timeless materials. “I wanted the watchwrist to be unisex, beautiful and timeless. Simply a watch I want for myself.”
Basket rug
Handtufted carpet 100% wool, cotton backing.
Design Lena Bergström
Design House Stockholm 2018
See more of the Basket rugs at www.designhousestockholm.com
The rug is entirely made by hand. The special technique of hand-tufting in different directions enhances the three-dimensional feel of Basket. Several threads in different colours creates the desired lustre. The rug is then carefully cut by hand into a tromp l’oeil graphic pattern that pays homage to Swedish handicraft traditions such as birch bark baskets and rucksacks. Sharp angles and soft transitions play the roles in a shadow play that is both illusion and reality. It comes in beige or grey and in four sizes but can be customized as a special order in other sizes.
Roses
Unique crystal objects.
Freehand Blown and Hand Cut.
Design Lena Bergström.
For the exhibition “Hommage – A tribute to Swedish Design”.
Kosta Boda 275th anniversary.
Suspending roses in glass is an old art. Rose globes could be found in nearly every Swedish home in the 1960s. Mona Morales-Schildt worked at Kosta from 1958 to 1971, and her elegant rose globes on tall stands were among the glassworks’ most beloved products. Now Lena Bergström has taken up the tradition. For the anniversary exhibition, Bergstrom has created a two-part globe for roses and a bottle of fragrance. Her rose globe has become a tiny spaceship or time capsule of glass for the flower that’s been found as far back as ancient Egyptian burial chambers. The fragrance bottle is unadorned and timeless. But it’s also full of air bubbles.
“I wanted the glass to bubble, just as it makes our emotions bubble! If there’s anything the world needs now, it’s love, and that means we want those emotions to live on like this.”
Well into the 20th century, Swedish glass was a man’s world. Mona Morales-Schildt broke new ground alongside Tyra Lundgren in the 1950s. Lena Bergström is one of our most productive and prize-winning successors to the original artists, and everyone who’s worked with her knows what an enthusiastic designer she is. Down-to-earth, but passionate in everything she does
And roses in a globe aren’t the end of the matter for Bergström. She will also be arriving at the anniversary exhibition with her arms full of dazzling roses! Shimmering red and pink roses in a giant format that literally stretched the glassworks’ talents to the breaking point.
“I’ve made some muscular, virile roses!” she says. “I like how they claim the space and fill up the room.”
Lena Bergström’s beautiful blood-red rose has become a hommage consisting of three unique specimens. Making them is a great challenge for everyone. They were sawn and ground in three sections with great precision, then glued together.
At a diameter of 43 cm, Bergström’s roses have become glorious symbols of the very best of our long history as a glassworks.
Carat
Crystal cut vases
Design Lena Bergström
Orrefors 2017
Sarek
Crystal and wood collection
Design Lena Bergström
Volvo Cars and Orrefors Glassworks 2017
Volvo Cars and Swedish glassmaker Orrefors have joined forces to create an exclusive crystal collection. Created by Lena Bergström – one of Sweden’s most acclaimed designers – and Volvo Cars’ award-winning design team, this handmade crystal glassware represents the best of modern Scandinavian design.
“When I was growing up in the north of Sweden, we would go on walks in the woods and take food in small wooden boxes made of plaited birch bark, traditional to the area,” says Lena Bergström. “I used this distinctive diamond pattern as inspiration for the facets on these pieces.”
The clarity and sharpness of each piece owes much to the craftmanship of Orrefors. They also serve as a re ection of the clarity and precision of Volvo design. This latest collection marks the continuation of a collaboration that rst brought these renowned Swedish companies together in the creation of the crystal gear selector in Volvo’s Twin Engine hybrid cars.
“Fields” wool rugs and stools.
Design Lena Bergström.
Design House Stockholm 2017.
See more of the Fields collection at www.designhousestockholm.com
Planets.
Unique objects / Crystal bowls.
Freehand Blown and Hand Cut.
Approximate size Ø40 cm.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors Kosta Boda 2016.
The first Planets in Lena Bergströms universe were created in 2001.
Over the years new Planets has been added in various colours and shapes
depending on the season and theme.
The Planets are the result of a long-time collaboration between Lena
and the skillled glassblowers and mastercutters of Orrefors Kosta Boda.
”I want each Planet to be unique and beautiful. Like us humans.
We all come from one egg with different content and then we are cut
into different characters. We become our own small planets.”
“Stellar” By Lena Bergström
Solo exhibition at Vessel Gallery
114 Kensington Park Road London
23rd November 2016 – 14th January 2017
www.vesselgallery.com
Planets.
Limited objects / Crystal bowls.
Freehand Blown and Hand Cut.
Approximate size Ø21 cm.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors Kosta Boda 2016.
A series of smaller size Planets made in a limited edition.
”I want the Planets to be unique and beautiful. Like us humans.
We all come from one egg with different content and then we are cut
into different characters. We become our own small planets.”
Björk wool rugs, stools and homebags. Design House Stockholm 2009.. “Björk” wool rugs, stools and homebags. Design Lena Bergström. Design House Stockholm 2009.
“Björk” wool rugs, stools and homebags.
Design Lena Bergström.
Design House Stockholm 2009.
Planet. Unique crystal by Lena Bergström for Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
BADA.
Bathroom concept with towels, bath towels and kimono in linnen.
Design Lena Bergström.
Klässbols Linneväveri 2014 (www.klassbols.se).
2014 Swedish Design Award finalist
2014 Formidable Design Prize finalist
Squeeze.
Crysal vases and barware.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors 1997.
Excellent Swedish Design Award 1997
Endless Love. Lena Bergström. Georg Jensen 2010.. Endless Love. 2011 Artist Heart silver pendant. Georg Jensen 2010.
Endless Love.
2011 Artist Heart silver pendant.
Georg Jensen 2010.
Carat bareware. Lena Bergström. Orrefors 2010.. 
Handbags.
Solid crystal with a stainless steel strap.
Limited edition of 5.
Freehand Blown and Hand Cut.
Size 26 cm wide.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors 2009.
“I have named the handbags after my mother, my sisters and myself.
We are all very different with our very specific qualities, just
like the handbags that are made out of the same mold but then cut
to different expressions.”
af Norrland
Unique handwoven walltextile in linen
Design Lena Bergström
Handarbetets Vänner / Klässbols Linneväveri
I samarbete med Klässbols Linneväveri och HV Ateljé har formgivaren Lena Bergström tillsammans med konstväverskan Carita Landstedts tagit fram en unik handvävd väggtextil/ljudabsorbent. Den är vävd av de kantremsor i lin som blir över när möbeltyget Norrland vävs hos Klässbols Linneväveri i Värmland. ”Jag ville ta vara på dessa fina kantremsor som annars slängs”, säger Lena Bergstöm. “Och genom Caritas hantverkskicklighet har de förvandlats till något unikt och vackert!”
Avanti.
Crystal stemware.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors 2009.
2009 Ambiente Design Award, Decoration Germany.
Norrland
Upholstery fabric in pure linen.
Design Lena Bergström.
Klässbols Linneväveri 2006.
2006 ELLE Interiör Design Award
2006 Swedish Design Award finalist
The Norrland collection is the result of a long and puposeful collaboration betweenKlässbols Linneväveri and the designer Lena Bergström. The qualities and possibilities of the linen has been the main thread for the work thathas grown out of the looms in Klässbol.
At a distance the low-voicedpatterns of Norrland creates single colours. But when you get closer new patters will appear. ”The strong and graphical characteristics of Norrland ( the northern swedish landscape ) has been my inspiration”, says Lena who grew up in Norrland.
Ever since the early 20’s has the raw material flax and its refinement directed theJohansson family in Klässbol. Their determination and humble belief in quality, their balance between old handicraft and new techniques, their beliefs in what they are doingand that it is the right thing, has spun threads far longer than to the border of Sweden.
Napkins and tablecloths from the little village in Värmland have for several years beenused at the prestigious Nobel feast. Swedish as well as Norwegian embassies worldwide choose products from Klässbols. They are purveyors to HM the King of Sweden, they have been given the honourable task of hand-weaving the very special royal tablecloth.
“The genuine craftmanship and quality philosophy at Klässbols has been developed by generations. It is rare today and very inspiring for me as a designer. And the linnen as material is fantastic. Like the gold and silver of textiles.”
Puck.
Crystal votive.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors 1997.
1999 Excellent Swedish Design Award.
Prismi.
Lamp with crystal prism.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors and Zero 2007.
Prismo.
Lamp with crystal prism.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors and Zero 2007.
Mingle.
Crystal Bowls and Tumblers.
Design Lena Bergström..
Orrefors 2005.
Schöner Wohnen “Design classic of the Century” 2005.
The Bombay Sapphire Prize finalist 2005
DeBox.
Crysal decanter and glass.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors 2003.
ELLE Interiör Design Award 2003.
Hand tufted carpet in pure wool
Umeå Town Hall 2007
Design Lena Bergström
Kasthall 2007
Toplight.
Candleholder in steel.
Design Lena Bergström.
Design House Stockholm 2005.
Velvet
Crystal vases
Design Lena Bergström
Orrefors 2000
Excellent Swedish Design Award 2000
Slitz.
Unique crystal vases.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors 1999.
Mama Squeeze.
Unique freehand blown crystal vase.
Hight 50 cm. Ø 25 cm.
Design Lena Bergström.
Orrefors 1995.
Mitt första konstglas för Orrefors som ingick i samlingsutställning “Minnenas plats” 1995. Vi formgivare fick i uppgift att välja ett objekt från Orrefors glasarkiv och sedan förhålla oss till det. Att jag jag valde Ingeborg Lundins fantastiska och ikoniska äpple var ingen slump. Som ny (och stursk) formgivare ville jag utmana Orreforshistorien och försöka ta mig vidare. Så jag käkade helt enkelt upp Ingeborgs äpple tillsammans med Orrefors skickliga slipare…
My first art glass for Orrefors, which was part of the exhibition “Memories Place” in 1995. Orrefor’s designers was assigned to choose an item from Orrefors glass archive and then relate to it. That I chose Ingeborg Lundin’s amazing and iconic Apple from 1955 was no coincidence. As a new (and sturdy) designer, I wanted to challenge Orrefor’s history and try to move on. So I simply took a bite in Ingeborg’s apple together with Orrefor’s skilful glass cutters…
