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Kosta Boda Desk Accessories

Sweden’s oldest glass company, Kosta Boda, also enjoys a reputation as the country’s most artistic and experimental glassmaker. Since the late 19th century, Kosta Boda has hired painters, sculptors and other artists for short stints — generally two or three years — designing glassware, ensuring that the firm’s aesthetic is always lively and fresh.

Two former army officers founded Kosta Boda in 1742 in Sweden’s densely forested Småland province. (Plentiful timber was needed as fuel for the melting furnaces.) The glassworks’ early products consisted of everyday glassware, such as drinking vessels and windowpanes. As the company recruited master craftsmen from Bohemia, it created fine crystal for an aristocratic clientele.

Kosta Boda began making art glass — that is, unique and limited edition pieces — with the hiring of the painter Gunnar Wennerberg in 1898. Wennerberg worked in the Art Nouveau style and brought a lush, organic look to the company’s wares. He was followed to the firm by artists such as Edvin Ollers, who in the early- 20th century created rich geometric and abstract floral patterns that were engraved on clear crystal.

Two post-war Kosta Boda designers stand foremost in the minds of collectors. One is Vicke Lindstrand, who excelled at a technique called cased glass, in which a vividly colored or patterned section of glass is surrounded by and seems to float within a clear crystal body. The other is Erik Höglund, who had an almost artisanal eye for glass shapes, and liked to produce glass that had a textured, warped look. As you will see from the many pieces available on 1stDibs, Kosta Boda created works in an astonishing array of styles, with something to suit any taste.

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Creator: Kosta Boda
Glass Paperweight by Goran Warff for Kosta Boda, Rare Find - FREE SHIPPING
By Göran Wärff, Kosta Boda
Located in Bochum, NRW
Beautiful and heavy paperweight designed by Goran Warff and made by KostaBoda in the 1960s. Hand made of glass, this paperweight is sophisticate, featuring green and blue waves of gl...
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1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kosta Boda Desk Accessories

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Art Glass

Eik Höglund - Glass Paperweights
By Erik Höglund, Kosta Boda
Located in MAASTRICHT, LI
Product Description: These paperweights by Erik Höglund will definitely brighten up your workplace. Höglund was a family man who got inspired by the creative process in his younger years already. A smart rebellious moderniser at heart Höglund, having his work refused at the glass shops of Sweden, set up his own exhibitions and convinced the art director at boda that with time customers would flock in. Hard work paid off and Höglund won the prestigious Danish Luning prize in 1957. Sales skyrocketed along with his fame, earning him the name "wonder boy" in the United States. Höglund did not consider himself a glass-artist solely. Höglund combined his glass art with iron in his famous chandeliers, painted on canvas and sculpted in bronze and terracotta. All the paperweights have a figurative relief pressed into them. A naked woman is pressed into two of the paperweights, the two blue paperweights hold a ship anchor, the blank rectangular paperweight a robot and a cat houses...
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1960s Swedish Vintage Kosta Boda Desk Accessories

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Glass

Anna Ehrner for Kosta Boda White Crystal, 1990s
By Anna Ehrner, Kosta Boda
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Anna Ehrner for Kosta Boda white crystal paperweight or votive candle holder. Kosta Boda white crystal candle holder by Anna Ehrner, 1990s A Kosta Boda votive...
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Late 20th Century Swedish Minimalist Kosta Boda Desk Accessories

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Crystal

Set of Two Kosta Boda Crystal Paperweights Mushroom & Owl by Lindstrand, Warff
By Kosta Boda, Vicke Lindstrand, Göran Wärff
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Set of two hand blown clear crystal paperweights by Kosta Boda, Sweden. This set includes one mushroom paperweight designed by Goran Warff, and one owl paperweight designed by Vicke Lindstrand. Both are signed and numbered and the mushroom...
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1970s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kosta Boda Desk Accessories

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1970s Painted Crystal Vase from the Kosta Wedding House
By Kosta Boda
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s Painted crystal vase from The Kosta Wedding House.
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Late 20th Century Swedish Kosta Boda Desk Accessories

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Glass, Art Glass

Kosta Boda Green and Clear Art Glass Collectable Paperweight
By Vintage Murano Gallery, Kosta Boda, Studio Ahus
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Sweden round green and clear glass paperweight. Vicke Lindstrand Kosta style Swedish art glass paperweight. Beautiful vintage glass art paperweight with multi sized controlled bubbles in green and clear accenting the close concentric complex. Hand blown bubble design Scandinavian Modern Art glass paperweight...
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Modern Kosta Boda Desk Accessories

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Glass

1960s Swedish Kosta Boda Olive Glass Warrior Shield & Sword Dish by Erik Hoglund
By Erik Höglund, Kosta Boda
Located in London, GB
1960s Small Swedish paperweight, ashtray or trinket dish which is made from a thick piece of square coloured light olive glass. The warrior with a sword...
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Kosta Boda Desk Accessories

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1960s Swedish Kosta Boda Teal Glass Trinket Dish Viking Ship by Erik Hoglund
By Erik Höglund, Kosta Boda
Located in London, GB
1960s Small Swedish paperweight, ashtray or trinket dish which is made from a thick piece of square coloured dark teal glass. The viking ship design is...
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Kosta Boda Desk Accessories

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Glass, Art Glass

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Kosta Boda desk accessories for sale on 1stDibs.

Kosta Boda desk accessories are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of glass and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Kosta Boda desk accessories, although orange editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original desk accessories by Kosta Boda were created in the mid-century modern style in scandinavia during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider desk accessories by Ericsson, and Dansk Designs. Prices for Kosta Boda desk accessories can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $97 and can go as high as $721, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $224.

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