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Kosta Boda (), formerly known as Kosta Glasbruk (), is a Sweden glassmaking company that is a well known manufacturer of art glass and tableware. It is located in Kosta, Sweden, which was named for the company. The surrounding region has become known as the Kingdom of Crystal, and is now a tourist site which attracts a million visitors annually.
Early production consisted of window glass, and drinking . From the 1840s, the factory was at the forefront of new trends and technical developments, producing pressed glass, and in the 1880s setting up a new glass-cutting workshop.
In 1898, the company hired the artist as its first in-house designer. Between 1928 and 1950 Elis Bergh was the artistic director of Kosta Glasbruk (after 1950 and until his death in 1954, Bergh worked as a consultant for Kosta). designs (1936 photograph)]] at Kosta glassworks with unknown artisan (Göran Schildt photo)]] The company has a history of working with well known artists and designers such as Monica Backström, , , Sven Erixson, , , Tyra Lundgren, Mona Morales-Schildt, , , Ulrica Hydman Vallien, Bertil Vallien, , and Ann Wolff.
In the 1950s Vicke Lindstrand, who served as the company's artistic director from 1950 to 1973, commissioned the architect Bruno Mathsson to design several buildings for Kosta. These included an exhibition hall and a row of terraced worker's houses. The latter, known as the , was granted legally protected Byggnadsminne status by the Swedish National Heritage Board in 2007.
Objects made by Kosta are in collections such as the Nationalmuseum, , National Museum of Norway, the Victorian and Albert Museum in London and the National Museum of Wales, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Netherlands, as well as the Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Kosta Boda is also known as the maker of the Eurovision Song Contest trophy since 2008, and the Women’s World Championship International Handball Federation trophy since 2023.
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