Gunnel Nyman: One the first iconic female designers of the 20th century
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Gunnel Nyman secured her place in design history by inventing modern glass and crystal design in the 1940s, which would come to be known as modernist in the 1950s.
Her vases and bowls, with their new fluid forms and techniques of decorating with microbubbles that revealed the full beauty of glass, became a sensation in the late 1940s.
Gunnel was called a designer-poet. The main focus in creating objects for her was the harmony of material, form, and proportions, with the material always remaining dominant. Shortly before her death, the designer wrote that the ideal object should be such that it would be unimaginable to conceive it made from anything other than glass or crystal.
"Glass can be called a 'solid liquid,' and the nature of solidified water, its living transparency, is perhaps the most beautiful property of this wonderful substance," Nyman noted.
Gunnel Nyman's pieces have become iconic and are valued worldwide.
Her vases and bowls, with their new fluid forms and techniques of decorating with microbubbles that revealed the full beauty of glass, became a sensation in the late 1940s.
Gunnel was called a designer-poet. The main focus in creating objects for her was the harmony of material, form, and proportions, with the material always remaining dominant. Shortly before her death, the designer wrote that the ideal object should be such that it would be unimaginable to conceive it made from anything other than glass or crystal.
"Glass can be called a 'solid liquid,' and the nature of solidified water, its living transparency, is perhaps the most beautiful property of this wonderful substance," Nyman noted.
Gunnel Nyman's pieces have become iconic and are valued worldwide.