Gunnar Cyrén - more than glass

"If I hadn't been accepted to Konstfack School the first time I applied in 1953, I probably wouldn't have applied a second time, and then I would have taken other opportunities that existed... Maybe I would have become a newspaper cartoonist. And then I probably would have become better at it too and established some kind of brand there. If I had been unlucky, I might have been offered to play in a professional dance or jazz orchestra, and I probably wouldn't have said no to that."
This is how Gunnar Cyrén described life's sometimes small margins in his own words in a conversation with Lennart Rudström Orrefors in 1997.
Gunnar Cyrén as a newspaper cartoonist. Yes, surely he would have been successful in that too, but when Stockholms Auktionsverk now presents 54 lots with his forms and creations, there is little else to do but to express gratitude to the admissions jury at Konstfack who that time in the early 1950s opened the doors to a then young Gunnar Cyrén. But even though he was only a few years into his twenties, he already had a journeyman's certificate as a goldsmith. He was thus a competent gentleman who came to be trained in Scandinavian design. And the result of that was a long career of creation in a variety of materials and disciplines. At Stockholms Auktionsverk, we get a taste of a little bit of everything.
Here we see some magnificent Graal vases from Orrefors. Here we get to experience his excellent goldsmith work in the form of a ring in 18K gold with brilliant-cut diamonds, an altar panel in silver, his stylized bronze animals (with varying patinas), a Nobel service set, and of course those schnapps devils that are almost a must at a festive table setting, promising a proper party.
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