2025 Glass Fellow from Svenskt Tenn

The grant will enable him to further develop his decanter in the glassworks Sthlm Glas.

Justification of the grant

"This year's scholarship winner, like many of the students, has drawn inspiration from the history of Svenskt Tenn, but the scholarship winner has particularly looked at Estrid Ericson's ability to take an everyday object and transform it into a beautiful and elegant object. Estrid Ericson took the classic jam jar and made it in pewter. Martin Sundqvist has taken the classic milk carton and made an incredibly elegant glass carafe. With your sense of form, your attention to detail and your fine sense of proportion, you have created a decanter that absolutely belongs at Svenskt Tenn. It is contemporary, with a nod to history, it is beautiful and it is functional."

Glass course in collaboration with Svenskt Tenn

In the annual course "The Assignment", second-year students at Beckmans College of Design's design program get the opportunity to explore glass based on a brief from Svenskt Tenn. The assignment is to create a product or product series on the theme "The set table". This year's course ended with a vernissage at Senab, where scholarships and honorable mentions were awarded by Thommy Bindefeld, Creative Advisor at Svenskt Tenn, and Ebba von Blixen, Product Manager at Svenskt Tenn.

Two honorable mentions

One of this year's two honorable mentions went to Pontus Mattson for his bowl "Plätt", which is made in plätt technique with engraved faces on the underside.

"Pontus has in an artistic way picked up a technique, the plate method, which many worked with in the 1960s/1970s. With playfulness and creativity, Pontus has made plates and bowls that really feel contemporary and could lift a table setting."

The second honorable mention went to Mikael Westman for his cuttings vase "Water Lily". The vase is in two parts, the glass base is optically blown to mimic the surface of the water, and the collar that holds the stems in place is cast in tin.

"In our brief we write that the student should preferably not mix materials because it is always extremely complicated to get two different materials to meet each other. But Mikael has in an elegant and ingenious way created a meeting between tin and glass to make a vase that has all the functions that a vase for cuttings needs. We can see that the Water Lily vase would work perfectly in Svenskt Tenn's range."

Participating students

Axel Svensson, Erik Marklund, Fanny Gref, Gabrielle Greiff, Jack Braun Thessing, Jennifer Boberg Jegréus, Julia Bianco Sommer, Leia Edman, Martin Sundqvist, Mikael Westman, Pontus Mattsson, Rojina Zabihitari, Simon Sandqvist Studsare.