Holmegaard has been creating quality glassware for almost two centuries. The legendary glassworks has collaborated with scores of celebrated designers over its long history, including Arne Jacobsen, Louise Campbell, Bodil Kjær and many others, with each artisan crafting vases, bottles and other serveware and decorative objects that are widely loved by collectors and art connoisseurs alike. Today Holmegaard is a powerhouse of functionalist modern Danish glass design.
Holmegaard Glassworks was the dream of Danish Count Christian Danneskiold-Samsøe, who petitioned the king of Denmark for permission to build a factory. Sadly, by the time permission was granted, the count had passed away, leaving his dowager, the Countess Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe, to carry on her late husband’s dream in 1825. The factory was established in the town of Fensmark in the Holmegaard bog, where rich peat could be harvested and used to fuel the high-temperature kilns required to produce glass there.
The factory initially produced only simple mouth-blown green glass packaging bottles — the need was for glassware that was merely functional. It wasn’t until the 1920s that it made progress as a significant entity in the world of design. There was a fruitful partnership to create dinner glassware with the Royal Danish Porcelain Factory and glass artist Oluf Jensen. This was followed in 1925 by Holmegaard’s hiring Jacob Eiler Bang as the glassworks’ first in-house designer.
Bang was trained as an architect and was working on the Danish Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts — the fair that brought the Art Deco style to worldwide attention — when his efforts caught the attention of Holmegaard. Bang believed in the concept of making things that were “beautiful, strong, practical and cheap.” His seductive, functionalist designs for vases, decanters, bottles and other objects — guided by the theories that underpin Scandinavian modernism — garnered acclaim for both Bang and Holmegaard, and he became known as one of the fathers of functionalism in Danish glassware.
Holmegaard went on to work with Per Lütken, who created intricate objects that redefined the factory’s style and Danish glass design as a whole. Lütken produced over 3,000 pieces for the glassworks, including the revered Provence bowl, one of the pieces for which the glassworks is best known. The brand went on to work with other notable artists including Otto Brauer and Jacob Bang’s son, Michael Bang, whose Palet range, Fontaine wine glass range, and Mandarin lamps are among Holmegaard’s most iconic creations.
Today, Holmegaard Glassworks is owned by Rosendahl Design Group. It is Denmark’s largest manufacturer of glass in addition to being the oldest and most historic.
Find vintage Holmegaard sconces, vessels, decorative bowls, tableware and other pieces on 1stDibs.
Mid-Century Modern Danish Labrador Green Glass Vase Per Lütken Holmegaard, 1950s
By Per Lütken, Holmegaard
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century Modern Danish Labrador Series Vase in Yellow Green Glass by Per Lütken for Holmegaard, 1950s
Glass
Mid-Century Danish Labrador Series Glass Vase by Per Lütken for Holmegaard 1950s
By Per Lütken
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century Danish Labrador Series Glass Vase by Per Lütken for Holmegaard, 1950s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1950 to 1959 This piece has an attribution mark. Additional info...
Glass
Mid-Century Danish Labrador Series Glass Vase by Per Lütken, 1950s
By Per Lütken
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century Danish Labrador Series Glass Vase by Per Lütken for Holmegaard, 1950s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1950 to 1959 This piece has an attribution mark. Additional info...
Glass
Mid-Century Modern Danish Glass Vase by Per Lütken for Holmegaard, 1960s
By Holmegaard
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century Modern Danish Glass Vase by Per Lütken for Holmegaard, 1960s
Glass
Mid-Century Modern Italian Green Glass Vase by Wayne Husted for Stelvia, 1970s
By Stelvia, Wayne Husted
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century Modern Italian Green Glass Vase by Wayne Husted for Stelvia, 1970s
Glass
Mid-Century German Minimalist Green Glass Vase, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century German Minimalist Green Glass Vase, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 Additional information: Materials: Glass Color: Blue Style: Mid-Century Modern ...
Glass
Large Grey Green Danish Glass Vase by Per Lutken for Holmegaard 1960s
By Per Lutken for Holmegaard, Per Lütken
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A tall and finely executed hand blown green glass vase by Holmegaard. The vase is signed and marked by Holmegaard and Lütken. The shape and...
Glass, Art Glass
Nils Landberg Sommerso Glass Vase, Gray and Green, Orrefors, 1950
By Nils Landberg
Located in Västra Frölunda, SE
This tall and elegant vase features a refined asymmetrical silhouette with a suspended smoky grey-green core encased within clear crystal. The slender form and subtle triangular prof...
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Green Danish Diablo Glass Vase by Per Lütken for Holmegaard, 1960s
By Per Lutken for Holmegaard
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Green hand-blown Diablo shaped Glass Vase designed in 1956 by Per Lütken. Manufactured at Holmegaard in Denmark between 1956-65. Its very rare. Measurements: Height: 35 cm, Diameter:...
Glass
Mid-Century Modern Art Glass Vase by Per Lutken for Holmegaard, C1960
By Per Lütken, Holmegaard
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous c1960 smoked grey glass vase by Per Lutken for Holmegaard. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear, as expected to the base. No...
Art Glass
Scandinavian modern large Green Glass Vase by Bo Borgström for Åseda, Sweden
By Bo Borgstrom, Aseda
Located in Skarpnäck, SE
A rather large handblown sommerso vintage art glass vase made by Bo Borgström for Åseda, Sweden. This vase has a fantastic shape, yet it is the color that really makes it stand out. ...
Glass
VENINI rare tall vase Dorici Green Murano Glass, Signed 2001, handmade in Italy
By Monica Guggisberg & Philip Baldwin, Venini
Located in Venezia, IT
Venini Dorici vase in Green Murano Glass, model 793.16, produced in 2001 and accompanied by its original Venini box and paperwork. Refined Dorici vase by Venini, designed by Monica ...
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
