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Nils Landberg

Also known as: Nils Landberg; primary name: Landberg, Nils
Details: individual; ceramicist/glass worker/potter; designer; Swedish; Male
Life dates: 1907-1991
Biography: Nils Landberg was a Swedish glass designer. On completing his studies at the Industrial Design School in Gothenberg, he joined the engraving school at Orrefors and stayed on as a trainee designer. His early commercial work was restrained but in the late 1940s he developed the slender glass for which he is now celebrated. The Tulip series dates from 1953. Over the years new shapes and colours were added regularly to the prototypes. Landberg remained at Orrefors until his reirement in 1972, each year refining his earlier designs and adding new ones.
Bibliography: Alastair Duncan, 'Orrefors Glass', Woodbridge 1995. Kerstin Wickman, ed,.'Orrefors. A Century of Swedish Glassmaking', Stockholm 1998