Designed by Ulrica Hydman-ValienUlrica Hydman-Vallien created Summer Dreams in celebration of Sweden's brief but beautiful summers. With hand-painted butterflies, bluebells, and a cheerful orange and green bloom, Summer Dreams vases are ideal for flower arrangements and make handsome accessories for displaying on their own.
"Desire, passion, energy - an artist can love and hate at the same time. I can be argumentative and totally committed. With glass all things are possible. Glass is immediate, intense, demanding; never is it just plain old glass. I love it for painting on, for telling tales. I have no rules. I allow my instinctive feelngs to take me whever they want."
When we say a piece of Kosta Boda is handmade, we mean it literally. Glassmaking at Kosta Boda is both wonderfully old-fashioned and perpetually a new world-each design a collaborative work of art between our designer artists and our glassmaker artists. The first hires at the new glassworks of Kosta in 1742 were skilled glassblowers, for it was their talents and experience that made all the difference in the end products. This is just as true today, where artisans and designers work side by side in the glassworks, cutting room, painting shop and engraving studio.