When we say a piece of Kosta Boda is handmade, we mean it literally. While science and technology have improved the quality of materials, the recipes and some processes, glassmaking at Kosta Boda is both wonderfully old-fashioned and perpetually a new world-each design a collaborative work of art between our designer artists and our glassmaker artists.

The first hires at the new glassworks of Kosta in 1742 were skilled glassblowers, for it was their talents and experience that made all the difference in the end products. This is just as true today, where artisans and designers work side by side in the glassworks, cutting room, painting shop and engraving studio. (Think of the conceptual artist as the composer, the glassmaking artists as the musicians.)

Our creative collaborators are the wizards who transform molten liquid one moment into exquisite, ringing champagne flutes (Line, Château), and the next into stunning contemporary vases and bowls (Atoll) or, using secret techniques, adding galaxies of bubbles and colors to create designs with complex depths and textures. Still others skillfully hand paint bright motifs on finished glass (Tulipa).