Lisa Hillands The Harvest

“Happy to launch a new project The Harvest, in collaboration with Orranäs Glassworks at Nordiska Kompaniet ! The projects is a tribute to Swedish handmade crystal, agricultural history and artistic exploration.

Generations of farmers’ hard work form the foundation of today’s welfare. I’m fascinated by humanity’s ability to cultivate and draw the best from nature. Through my lifelong involvement with horses, I spend a lot of time in the countryside and have gained insight into agricultural life from an early age. In the past, people were better at managing resources—something I wanted to apply in this project. Together with the glassblowers at Orranäs Glassworks in Småland, she created The Harvest, a series of vases, bowls and platters in various sizes.

The vase moulds are made from parts of an old abandoned hay tedder, a farming tool used to turn hay in the field to speed up drying. The tool marks leave traces from a bygone era in the glass, while creating a new and unexpected visual expression. The Harvest is a new direction for me where I give myself room as a designer to explore more artistic directions making ’a lot from a little’ inspired by historical agricultural methods and tools.

If you are in Stockholm this coming welcome to visit NK to take a closer look dear friends

Special thanks to my father Mats and my uncle Per in the process of making the moulds.” – Lisa Hilland