Snippan Dish/Votive

Small but full of spirit.

PRODUCT:

For the first time ever, Åsa Jungnelius’ contemporary classic Snippan is being presented as a smaller sculpture that can also be used as a bowl. Since it was first created in 2003, Snippan has become a contemporary feminist symbol. The sculpture is part of Nationalmuseum’s collection (Sweden’s museum of art and design). Snippan Pink for the Kosta Boda Artist Collection is cast in a graphite mold and colored in the hotshop here in Kosta. Åsa Jungnelius, born in 1975, is among the leading pioneers of the contemporary movement of feminist and handicraft-driven Swedish artists who emerged in the 2000s. Her breakthrough arrived in 2004 with her degree project for the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, entitled Your hair is so pretty!

DETAILS:

• Made in Sweden 
• Dimensions: 4.7 x 3.5 x 2.3 in (11.9 x 8.9 x 5.8 cm)
• Comes in several variants
• Made of crystal glass

MAKER STORY:

The glassworks in Kosta was founded in 1742. The name was created from the surnames of the founders, Generals Koskull and Staël von Holstein. Kosta’s location, in the heart of the dense forests in the Swedish province of Småland, was chosen so that the glassworks could provide both Stockholm and Karlskrona with glass. Important roads crossed here, and there was also an unlimited supply of wood to heat the furnaces. Fine utility glassware was made here during the first 150 years of the company’s existence and comprised products such as window panes, bottles and drinkware, but also glass chandeliers and similar items. The customers included royalty, nobility and wealthy merchants who could afford the costly glassware. For a long time, the glassblowers came from Bohemia, which is now part of the Czech Republic. Many decades passed before Swedes learnt how to blow glass.

Organic, Handmade