'BK' Architectural Slab
Christer Sjögren, c.1970
Lindshammar Glasbruk, Sweden

Description

A huge and very heavy vintage vibrant aqua-blue/green octagonal glass slab from the 'Arkitektur-Glas' series, designed in the 1970s by Christer Sjögren for Swedish glassworks, Lindshammar Glasbruk. The slab, unusually, is decorated with an embossed 'BK' monogram, and was most likely a unique, one-off custom made piece.

Individually hand-poured, with all of the wonderful inclusions, striations, bubbles and other 'imperfections' that entails, these cast glass slabs were produced as sections for dalle-de-verre windows (stained glass windows of glass slabs set into concrete) prevalent in 1960s and 1970s architecture. 

They were also retailed as paperweights / decorative objects, and incorporated into metal sculptures, lamps and candlesticks by a variety of third-party companies, perhaps most famously by Ystad Metall.

Because of the 'plinth' to the rear of the slab, this rare example could easily be used as a very shallow dish, or as a decorative centrepiece on a table or sideboard.

The slab is 'new old stock', discovered in a Copenhagen glass warehouse that had closed its doors in the mid-1970s.

Features

                                 
Material:Glass
Height:210mm / 8.2"
Width or Diameter:50mm / 1.9"
Country of Origin:Sweden
Period of Manufacture:1960s-1970s
Vintage Condition:Light base wear.

About Us

Messrs. Nicholas Wilson and Ashley Coleman, the constituent parts of Wilson & Coleman, are dedicated - addicted - to finding wonderful vintage and contemporary interior design objects and works of decorative art from around the world.

We shun the ease of buying from dull and predictable wholesalers and "antiques warehouses", and everything we acquire has been individually sourced, often in very limited runs. This means that although we present mostly 20th and 21st Century European objects of vertu we never know exactly what we'll next discover on our travels.

We do know, however, that it will never be boring.

Selecting items individually also means that there will always be a consistent level of taste, quality and coherence that runs throughout our collections. We would never present anything that we would not absolutely love to own ourselves.