Duo of water or beverage glasses Pore. In the 1950s Finnish female designer Gunnel Nyman created that series using the "controlled bubble" technique. This method involved the deliberate inclusion of evenly spaced air bubbles within the glass during the blowing process, resulting in a refined, textured surface
Glasses are of early modernist aesthetics with clean lines, functional form and ornamentation through craftsmanship.
Nuutajärvi glassworks. Dimensions: Height is 8.5 cm, Diameter max is 7.5 cm. Excellent vintage condition. Number of the form is GN23.
Why buy vintage glass by Gunnel Nyman?
Female designer Gunnel Nyman secured her place in design history by inventing modern glass and crystal design in the 1940s, which would come to be known as modernist in the 1950s.
Her vases and bowls, with their new fluid forms and techniques of decorating with microbubbles that revealed the full beauty of glass, became a sensation in the late 1940s.
Gunnel was called a designer-poet. The main focus in creating objects for her was the harmony of material, form, and proportions, with the material always remaining dominant. Shortly before her death, the designer wrote that the ideal object should be such that it would be unimaginable to conceive it made from anything other than glass or crystal.
"Glass can be called a 'solid liquid,' and the nature of solidified water, its living transparency, is perhaps the most beautiful property of this wonderful substance," Nyman noted.
Gunnel Nyman's pieces have become iconic and are valued worldwide.
