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Lisa Larson Gustavsberg Studio

June 4, 2013

Lynx – Lisa Larson, Gustavsberg

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Lisa Larson, born 1931, is a Swedish ceramic designer who started at Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory in 1953. She was hired by the famous Stig Lindberg who recognized and nurtured her gift for design. The Mid -Century modernist touch is apparent in many of her works. In 1981 she left Gustavsberg to work freelance as a sculptural artist and designer for various Swedish companies and the German porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal. She did stints at various ceramic companies including Duka, Kooperativa Förbundet and Åhléns .

During this time she created several hundred different designs – many of which became design classics, sought after by antique dealers and private collectors. Lisa Larson is best known for her humorous and friendly figures, generous shapes and artfully drawn incised decoration. Even though she created appealing ceramic wares, her talent for the charming characterization of domestic and exotic animals in her ceramic figurines and sculptures became the most popular.

Moses by Lisa Larson – Gustavsberg Ceramic Studio

In 1992 she founded the Gustavsberg Ceramic Studio with her colleagues Franco Nicolosi and Siv Solin. Their ceramics are produced on a small scale by a team of master craftsmen and women who continue the traditional crafts of mold making, glazing and hand painting. Lisa Larson is still actively working on creating and producing new ceramic designs, while her body of work is being discovered and rediscovered by many outside of Sweden.

Lisa Larson Rhino from the 1966 Maanage Series

Lisa Larson porcelain armadillo 1970 Length 7 inches

( 1stdibs )

Advent – 1956

Elk, king of forest – Lisa Larson

( Skandinavisk Antik )

Tax Mini Dacchshund – Lisa Larson

Ceramic Cats Lisa Larson

( theanimalarium.blogspot.com.au )

This European Bison is one of a series of animals threatened by extinction produced in 1978

by Gustavsberg for the World Wildlife Fund and the Swedish department store Nordiska Kompaniet.

( theanimalarium.blogspot.com.au )

Vase with carved decoration – Lisa Larson

Tiger from the 1959 Afrika series

( theanimalarium.blogspot.com.au )

White Poodle Lisa Larson Ceramics

Charlotta – Lisa Larson

Ape figurine – Lisa Larson

Wilhelm Kåge – Gustavsberg

70 years ago, Wilhelm Kage started Gustavsberg Studio, or “G-studio”. It was launched as an “aesthetic laboratory” within the factory frames. The studio was described at the time as an idyllic oasis in industrijäktet, an idéverkstad, where the work could be done in peace and quiet without chords and office hours, as a “spiritual cycle path alongside the mass production autostrada”.

Zebra from Stora ( big ) Zoo Series, 1958

‘Harlerkin’ plaque produced 1960-69

( richard wallis antiks )

Anders Bruno Liljefors vase, Gustavsberg

( Domino Antik )

Lisa Larson Gustavsberg Wall Plaque

Lisa Larson – Gustavsberg Sweden

Lis Larson – Albertina 1959-60

Fox – Lisa Larson from the Skansen Series for Gustavsberg, Sweden 1978

Samhällsdebatten -( Public Debate ) – 1968

Lisa Larson stoneware figurine

Lisa Larson ceramic head sculpture

Lisa Larson female figurine

Limited Edition Hedgehog – WWF series

( bukowskis market )

Cat by lisa larson

Poodle Figurine – Lisa Larson

Ceramic Tile – Elephant with 3-Riders

Lisa Larson

Large Ceramic Bulldog – Lisa Larson – Stora Zoo Collection 1957

Elephant from Africa Series 1964

( Retrohome.se )

Lisa Larson Tripp Cat – Gustavsberg

Wall Tile “Birds” and “Riders” from the series “Unique”.

Lisa Larson för Gustavsberg Sweden 1967.

Lisa Larson dog figurine

( Isaiaz Flickr )

Lisa Larson with cats

Lisa Larson in studio

Lion and Bird – Lisa Larson

Decorative ceramic tile – Lisa Larson

Ceramic horse figurine – Lisa Larson

( Smagarde Auktioner )

Stoneware Donkey figurine with painting and glaze

Lisa Larson, Gustavsberg,

Afghan Dog – Lisa Larson

Lisa Larson Cat – Lilla Zoo collection

( Keramikk Ceramics )

Lisa Larson Animal Figurines

Terracotta, with selective glaze, horse figurine – Lisa Larson

From the Lilla Zoo collection – The very first collection of Lisa Larson’s figures to be put into production in 1955. Stig Lindberg, who was artistic director at Gustavsberg’s porcelain factory, discovered Lisa’s unique talent at adapting her creative ideas to the many challenges of factory production.

( Liveauctioneers )

Black and White Cocker Spaniel – Lisa Larson

Lisa Larson figurine ” Icehockey Player “

1973

Stora Eva by Stig Lindberg

Mid Century soulful seal – Lisa Laarson

Boxer Dog figurine – Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg

1972

Lisa Larson Shih Tzu dog from the 1972 Kennel Series

Green Hippo by Lisa Larson

1965

Polar Bear – Lisa Larson, Sweden

Stora Zoo series 1957

Poodle Vov – Lisa Larson

1980’s

Lisa Larson Flackig Spaniel – Kennel Series 1972

Poodle figurine by Lisa Larson, Sweden

Pair of Sea Lions – Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg, Sweden

Noah’s Arc Series 1978

Vintage Cat Wall Tile – Lisa larson

Unik Series 1962 – 1986

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Website : http://www.lisalarsonsweden.com/home/en

Lisa Larson on Facefook – http://on.fb.me/17UUHrY

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The End of History’s dazzling displays

May 19, 2012

Three Mid Century vases

50’s italian Murano glass

Vintage Italian Bitossi ceramic chartreuse lidded jar and vase

Manhattan vintage mecca

The End of History is a uique store in Manhattan that is mainly dedicated to decorative glass and ceramic wares displaying over 10,000 pieces. It boasts the largest single showroom of ceramic and glass pieces in the world. Their specialty is vintage Mid-Century art pieces from the 50’s and 60’s sourced from America and most of Europe including Swedish Gustavsberg, Italy’s Murano Glass, Denmark’s Soholm and Saxbo and German Rosenthal. There are also original glass and ceramics from the 20’s t0 40’s and it’s easy to see why it has become favourite for prop stylist’s and professional decorators.. A dazzling array of style and colour pervades the displays. Owner Stephen Saunders has been runnng the store for 15 years and has amassed an impressive collection that is worthy of a museum.

He sends pickers to antique markets across the country and overseas because they have become so popular; and he believes his shop has really contributed to that. He claims ” I am allowing people to rediscover things. I buy things that I love and re-present them as the luxury goods they once were. Everything goes through a period in which it’s unfashionable, but now that it has come back for the second time, it’s here to stay.’ As the store name suggests and being 2012 and all that, if we’re going under…lets go down in style.