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Beckmans School of Design

The 2025 glass scholarship recipient from Svenskt Tenn

October 20, 2025
Tall square glass filled with sparkling water and ice cubes, against a light grey background.
A hand pours water from a square glass with a spout at one corner, against a light background.
Set table with textured glass plates, a halved punschrulle pastry and a dessert in a bowl, glasses and a white candle.
Two round glass vases with leaf-shaped metal lids, one holding a plant cutting, on a dark surface.
Round glass vase beside a curved, patterned metal lid, on a dark surface against a light background.
Clear glass candlestick with a round bulb and a white candle, in front of ribbed glass.
Two glass vessels with small glass beads on the sides, one with water and a sprig of red berries, the other filled with dark red liquid.
Irregularly shaped glass vase holding an orange pincushion protea and yellow billy buttons, on a glass table with a book beneath.
Martini glass with green olives on a cocktail pick, on a grey counter.
Three glasses with pressed-in dimples, one with a lemon slice, one with a red drink and one empty, against a white background.
Hammered glass vases, tumblers and a tealight holder in stacked forms, one vase holding a dried poppy head, on a glossy surface.
Small wave-shaped glass vase with a sprig of red berries, casting a shadow on a beige background.
Beige linen napkin gathered in a napkin ring with a clear glass flower, on a grey surface.
Clear glass napkin ring curled into a spiral with a flower at one end, against a light grey background.
Glass on a clear glass stem shaped like grasping fingers, beside a bottle, a water glass and cutlery on a plate.
"Pleat" design by Martin Sundqvist. Photo: Fredrik Wannerstedt

Martin Sundqvist’s innovative jug “Pleat”, inspired by the shape of a milk carton and the way you hold it, has been awarded this year’s glass scholarship by Svenskt Tenn.

The scholarship gives him the opportunity to further develop his carafe at the Sthlm Glas glass studio.

Scholarship citation

“Like many of the students, this year’s scholarship recipient has drawn inspiration from Svenskt Tenn’s history, but has in particular focused on Estrid Ericson’s ability to take an everyday object and transform it into something beautiful and refined. Estrid Ericson took the classic jam jar and reimagined it in pewter. Martin Sundqvist has taken the classic milk carton and turned it into an exceptionally elegant glass carafe. With your assured sense of form, attention to detail and fine feeling for proportion, you have created a carafe 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 in the Product Design programme at Beckmans College of Design are given the opportunity to explore glass based on a brief from Svenskt Tenn. Their task is to create a product or product series on the theme “The Laid Table”. This year’s course concluded with an opening at Senab, where scholarships and honorary mentions were awarded by Thommy Bindefeld, Creative Advisor at Svenskt Tenn, and Ebba von Blixen, Product Manager at Svenskt Tenn.

Two honourable mentions

One of this year’s two honorary mentions went to Pontus Mattson for his bowl “Plätt”, made using the plätt technique with engraved faces on the underside.

“Pontus has, in an artistic way, revived a technique – the ‘plätt’ method – that many worked with in the 1960s and 70s. With playfulness and creativity, he has created plates and bowls that feel genuinely contemporary and could really elevate a table setting.”

The second honourable mention went to Mikael Westman for his propagation vase “Water Lily”. The vase consists of two parts: a glass base, mouth-blown in an optic mould to evoke the surface of water, and a pewter collar that holds the stems in place.

“In our brief, we state that students should preferably avoid mixing materials, as it is always extremely complex to make two different materials work together. But Mikael has, in an elegant and ingenious way, created a dialogue between pewter and glass to design a vase that offers everything a propagation vase needs. We can easily see the Water Lily vase fitting seamlessly into Svenskt Tenn’s collection.”

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.