Hanna Ljunström has been hooked on contemporary glassware design for eleven years now. Having stumbled across it by chance whilst at art school in Gothenburg, she has been evolving not only the traditional techniques behind glass blowing, but pushing the boundaries in which glassware design is placed.

Living and working in Gothenburg Sweden, Hanna is part of the design group LOTS. She regularly holds lectures about design and crafts and was the editor of the book RE:FORM about contemporary Swedish crafts.

"My starting point in the design discussion has often been the crafts position: How can we develop the crafts field? Is there a way for development through a more frequent dialogue between the industry and the crafts? And what kind of products would be produced in a scenario like that? Our need for tactility, curiosity, uniqueness, quality and aforethought has convinced me that the craftsman has many important experiences from materials, methods and context to share in a mass production situation - and vice versa."

Hanna Ljungstöm