Vintage Orrefors Flygsfors Opaline Green Glass Mushroom Lamp

Super cool vintage green cased glass lamp by Flygsfors Sweden with a hooped mushroom like silhouette.

A beautiful green colour with white interior.

It has it's original wiring which has been electrically checked.

Measures: 16cm ø | 18cm height | 12cm base ø

Notes: great vintage condition, no chips/cracks, very light surface scratches as with use.

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About:

Flygsfors was a glassworks established in Sweden in 1888, initially to make window glass.

During the early twentieth century Swedish glass companies benefited commercially and industrially by their neutrality during the two world wars, and their glassworks evolved beautiful harmonious designs in the 1940s and 50s at a time when little was happening in the glassworks of Europe. During the 1950's they led the world in the volume and creativity of their designs.

In 1939 Flygsfors appointed Wilhelm De Moor as the company's glass designer, and in 1949 Paul Kedelv became a designer for Flygsfors. In his studio at Flygsfors in the 1950's he produced his Coquille series of sculptured vessels like the one pictured above left. Formerly a student of Edvin Ohrstrom, Kedelv had worked at Orrefors in his 20s. He joined Flygsfors at the age of 32, and although he stayed only about seven years, his designs continued to be produced for many years by Flygsfors.

There were other designers working for Flygsfors over the years, one of the most well known being Viktor Berndt who designed glass for Flygsfors from 1955 to 1974. His tribal mask vases had faces moulded in relief.

Flygsfors glassworks was taken over by Orrefors in 1974 but closed only five years later.