–  country: Sweden

–  design: Monica Backström

–  manufacture: Kosta Boda

–  series: Athena

–  year: 1989

–  material: bubbles art glass

–  colour: mint-green

–  size: large

–  dimensions: diameter: 18cm | height: 21,5cm

–  condition: perfect vintage condition, unsigned

Monica Astrid Stensdotter Backström (20 May 1939 – 2 July 2020) was a Swedish artist and designer. She is known primarily for her works in glass.

In 1965 she won a competition that was arranged for the 100th anniversary of Kosta Glasbruk (a Swedish glassworks now known as Kosta Boda), which led to her employment as a glass designer at the company. She went on to work for Kosta for forty years. In the late 1960s and 1970s, she also designed, clothing, jewellery, furniture, and household objects, made public artworks, and collaborated with artists and designers such as Erik Höglund, Ulrica Hydman Vallien, Bertil Vallien, Ann Wolff, and Göran Wärff.

Her works are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands; as well as in collections in the United States and Japan.

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