Orrefors Crystal Designers

Sculptor and designer Jan Johansson joined Orrefors in 1969 after training as a silversmith in Stockholm at the College of Arts, Crafts and Design. Jan is one of the company's vital links to the design and glassmaking techniques developed by Orrefors' artists and craftsmen in the 1950s and 60s. Inspired by these earlier generations of Orrefors artists, Jan developed a purely sculptural idiom, exploring the relationship between glass and light - reflection, refractions, translucence, surface and depth, reality and illusion. Jan's work is represented in the National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm; Rohasska Museum of Applied Art, Gothenburg; and many other permanent collections of the world over, including the Corning Museum of Glass, New York.