Ulrica Hydman Vallien and Bertil Vallien

Can glass designers become beloved by the people? If the answer is yes, then that's precisely what the couple Ulrica Hydman-Vallien and Bertil Vallien became already towards the end of the last century. Ulrica with her colorful pieces featuring faces, snakes, and tulips. Bertil with his sandblasted, textured, sometimes intensely blue boats, blocks, and masks. Both of them succeeded in renewing Swedish glass art with their distinctive works, far, far from the delicate exhibition glass that once put Swedish glassworks on the world map. At Kolonn Auction House, we encounter them at their best. Here, Bertil's Satellite glass mingles with Ulrica's Open Minds vases. Here, a Metropolis Skyscraper shoots up toward the sky while tulips are in full bloom. Standing out in this context is Ulrica Hydman-Vallien's People dinnerware, where she has brought her expression into the world of porcelain. Her artwork Nattfågel (Night Bird), in ink on paper, is also particularly worth noting. Welcome