Willy Johansson’s spiral vase, as it is known, probably had Norwegian bidders mainly, as it’s one of the iconic Hadeland pieces here. This model was made from 1952 until 1958, at a time when Johansson and other Hadeland designers were regularly awarded top prizes for their glass at the Milan triennale. As a rule, only 25 pieces were to be made of each model in their art glass range, but if demand exceeded that, exceptions were made, certainly in the case of the spiral vase. Still you’d be hard pressed to find maybe 50 of them, and many are of course chipped. Museums are queing for this vase, it’s top of the list for any Norwegian glass (or indeed design) collector, and the dark and slanted ebay photo really didn’t do it justice. As you can probably tell, I’m the happy owner of a perfect piece.