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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: Pinkspoons on October 14, 2008, 04:08:18 PM
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I feel very fortunate indeed to be the owner of this vase, a big big beast at 48cm tall! It was designed for exhibition in 1970 by Per Lütken for Holmegaard, and is fully recorded in his exhibition workbook (Form 2386). A very small handful of them would have been made to buy at the exhibition itself, and it was not put into production afterwards.
The design is completely free-blown, and is a malström of colours and bubbles.
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Well done you. I don't actually think I like it though :huh: I think it's the shape, although I can appreciate the skill involved
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I think Lütken's abstract works are quite an acquired taste. Already, amongst the residents of Chez Pinkspoons, it has picked up the nickname 'The Mutant Fish Vase'.
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DO NOT POST IT ANYWHERE!! :o >:D
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My heart was in my mouth as I was opening the parcel when it arrived - the sender had put it in a tiny box with barely 1-2cm to spare at either end, wrapped only in newspaper! :o
Thankfully the vase is built like a brick outhouse and survived.
Doing a little more research into this vase, and it appears that a few of the designs from this exhibition series were simplified in terms of shape and decoration, and became the 'Cascade' series (1970-1979).
Small 'Cascade' Centrepiece, catalogue number 341 49 10:
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Are you sure it wasn't a collaborative effort between Dr Seuss and Jim Henson, and that it doesn't hop around making honking noises? Its name might be 'Clark'. :-)
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Well it's been on my bedside table for about a month, and I've not noticed it doing that - but who knows what goes on during the day when I'm not here? ;D
And, complying with Max's warning, this vase is being hand-delivered back to Denmark in February - no postal service will be getting their Holmegaard-destroying mits on it. ;D
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Are you sure it wasn't a collaborative effort between Dr Seuss and Jim Henson, and that it doesn't hop around making honking noises? Its name might be 'Clark'. :-)
;D it reminds me of the talking plant in The Little Shop of Horrors!
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Are you sure it wasn't a collaborative effort between Dr Seuss and Jim Henson, and that it doesn't hop around making honking noises? Its name might be 'Clark'. :-)
:clap: I can just imagine it doing that! And maybe even giving out a long drawn out wail as it looks for its mate..
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Well its new home in Denmark will be amongst a lot of other unique exhibition pieces, so it doesn't have to pine for much longer. :)
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You brave person, coming to Denmark in February..it's chilly! If you're coming to Copenhagen, you're welcome to give me a bell :)
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I really wish it was me doing the hand-delivering, but sadly not (I'm fairly impervious to cold).
The only advantage of living in a place called Grimsby, which I do, is that there are going to be lots of Danes kicking about, and that sometimes they go back home. ;D So I'm just passing it on to a Danish friend to take for me.
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Heh PS nice score! here I am again at your urging LOL
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Another exhibition item - a carafe, design number 2505 from the October 1971 exhibition at the Kunstindustrimuseet. Part of a tableware set that was never put into production.
Although much more modest than the vase, and worth considerably less, it's probably rarer in terms of numbers produced. Having asked around a few serious collectors, they've never before seen this form except for a sketch in Lütken's exhibition workbooks.