The grant gives him the opportunity to further develop his decanter in the Sthlm Glas greenhouse.
Stipend motivation
“This year’s fellow, like many students, has drawn inspiration from the history of Svenskt Tinn, but in particular the fellow has looked at Estrid Ericson’s ability to take an everyday object and transform it into a beautiful and elegant one. Estrid Ericson took the classic jam jar and made it from pewter. Martin Sundqvist has taken the classic milk carton and created an incredible elegant glass carafe. With your certainty of form, your focus on detail and your fine sense of proportion, you have created a decanter that absolutely belongs to Svenskt Tenn. It is contemporary, with a nod to history, it is beautiful and it is functional.”
Glass course in collaboration with Svenskt Tenn
In the annual course “The Assignment” second-year students of the design course at the Beckmans Design School have the opportunity to explore glass based on an assignment from Svenskt Tenn. The assignment is to create a product or product series around the theme “The set table”. The course ended this year with an opening at Senab, where scholarships and honorable mentions were awarded by Thommy Bindefeld, Creative Advisor at Svenskt Tenn and Ebba von Blixen, Product Manager, at Svenskt Tenn.
Two honorable mentions
One of the two honorable mentions this year went to Pontus Mattson for his bowl “Plätt”, made in the plate technique with engraved faces on the bottom.
“Pontus has artistically picked up a technique, the plate method, that many worked with in the 1960s/70s. With playfulness and creativity, Pontus has created bowls and bowls that feel truly contemporary and can take a table setting to the next level.”
The second honorable mention went to Mikael Westman for his tongue vase “Waterlily”. The vase consists of two parts, the glass base is optically blown to imitate the water surface and the collar that holds the stems in place is cast from pewter.
“In our assignment we write that the student should preferably not mix materials because it is always incredibly complicated to bring two different materials together. But Mikael has elegantly and ingeniously created a meeting between tin and glass to create a vase that has all the functions that a vase for cuttings needs. We see that the Waterlily vase could work excellently in the Svenskt Tinn range.”
Participating students
Axel Svensson, Erik Marklund, Fanny Gref, Gabrielle Greiff, Jack Braun Thessing, Jennifer Boberg Jegréus, Julia Bianco Sommer, Leia Edman, Martin Sundqvist, Mikael Westman, Pontus Mattsson, Rojina Zabihitari, Simon Sandqvist Studsare.
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