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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Glassware,Art Glass |
| Predecessor | Kosta Glasbruk |
| Founded | 1742 (1742) |
| Founder | Anders Koskull [sv] Georg Bogislaus Stael von Holstein |
| Headquarters | Kosta,Småland,Sweden |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Parent | New Wave Group [sv] |
| Website | kostaboda |
Kosta Boda (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈkǔːstaˈbûːda]), formerly known asKosta Glasbruk (IPA:[ˈkǔːstaˈɡlɑ̂ːsbrʉːk]), is aSwedish glassmaking company that is a well known manufacturer ofart glass andtableware. It is located inKosta, Sweden, which was named for the company.[1] The surrounding region has become known as theKingdom of Crystal,[2] and is now a tourist site which attracts a million visitors annually.[citation needed]
Kosta Glasbruk was founded in 1742 by two officers inCharles XII's army,Anders Koskull [sv] andGeorg Bogislaus Staël von Holstein.[1] The name is aportmanteau of the founders' surnames, Ko(skull) + Sta(el) andBoda Glasbruk, which was a company inEmmaboda Municipality that was merged into Kosta Glasbruk. In 1903, the company also merged with theReijmyre glassworks, although both entities retained their names.[citation needed] Kosta Glasbruk is active today under the name of Kosta Boda.[2] Since 2005, it has been part ofOrrefors Kosta Boda [sv], a subsidiary of theNew Wave Group [sv].[3][2][4]
Early production consisted ofwindowglass,chandeliers and drinkingglasses. From the 1840s, the factory was at the forefront of new trends and technical developments, producingpressed glass, and in the 1880s setting up a new glass-cutting workshop.[citation needed]
In 1898, the company hired the artistGunnar Gunnarsson Wennerberg [sv] as its first in-house designer.[1] Between 1928 and 1950Elis Bergh was the artistic director of Kosta Glasbruk (after 1950 and until his death in 1954, Bergh worked as a consultant for Kosta).[5][1]
The company has a history of working with well known artists and designers such asMonica Backstrom [sv]Ewald Dahlskog [sv],Anna Ehrner [de],Sven Erixson,Erik Hoglund [sv],Åsa Jungnelius [sv],[citation needed]Tyra Lundgren,Mona Morales-Schildt,Edvin Ollers [sv],Sven Erik Skawonius [sv],Ulrica Hydman Vallien,Bertil Vallien,Goran Warff [sv], andAnn Wolff.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][2][1]
In the 1950sVicke Lindstrand, who served as the company's artistic director from 1950 to 1973,[13] commissioned the architectBruno Mathsson to design several buildings for Kosta. These included an exhibition hall and a row of terraced worker's houses. The latter, known as theKosta Glashus [sv], was granted legally protectedByggnadsminne'Building Monument' status by theSwedish National Heritage Board in 2007.[14]
Objects made by Kosta are in collections such as theSwedish National Museum,Smålands museum [sv],National Museum of Norway, theVictorian and Albert Museum in London and theNational Museum of Wales,Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Netherlands, as well as theBrooklyn Museum,Metropolitan Museum andMuseum of Modern Art in New York.[15][8][16][9][17][18][19][20][21]
Kosta Boda is also known as the maker of theEurovision Song Contest trophy since 2008,[22] and the Women’s World ChampionshipInternational Handball Federation trophy since 2023.[23]
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