Orrefors Glasbruk

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Orrefors Glasbruk is a glassworks in the Swedish village Orrefors in Småland. The house was founded in 1898 and originally made window glass and practical objects such as jam jars. However the company changed ownership in 1913, and by 1916 attempted to take their work into a more artistic direction. Two Swedish painters, Simon Gate and Edvard Hald, were hired to decorate and design the glass, despite neither of them having any experience with the medium. They were later joined by other artists such as Vicke Lindstrand and Edvin Öhrstrom. Each of these people had an individual artistic style, but together they created several unique features and innovations. One of these was Graal glass, where colored relief decorations are encased in another layer of colorless and transparent crystal, which gives a smooth surface.