Orrefors Glassworks

When Consul Johan Ekman bought the factory in 1913, Orrefors started to produce drinking glasses, vases and other house-ware items.

Ekman hired Knut Bergkvist and his nephew Eugen, who had worked at Kosta Glasbruk before, as well as Fritz Blomqvist and Heinrich Wollman.

The first attempts at art glass making were in the style of the at the time famous French glassworks such Daum and Gallé.

[4] A major influence of theirs was the Art Nouveau work of the French artist Émile Gallé.

[5] Their designs use characteristic clean lines of brilliant crystal that suggests a frozen liquid.