This workbooklike catalogue with all the works of the exposition well photographed in situ, gives an elaborate story on the history of glass in Denmark by Jan Kock, MA, Associate Professor emeritus, Aarhus University. Well-translated by Ingrid Bongers, the history of glass art, craft, industrial design, the factories and workshops and the educational possibilities, museums, expositions and galleries and their development. It is great to read such a precisely defined story from the time of the founding fathers of the Studio Glass movement, including the founder of the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft Finn Lynggaard who with his activities influenced so many artists and curators with his enthusiasm, hospitality and mirth. It is also good to see his work in Lommel and as the opening page of the part of the book where the artists and their work are described.
In the chapter Holmegaard Glass Factory, Susanne Outzen depicts the production of glass after Denmark’s separation from Norway. How the different glass works developed since 1814, their heydays and finally the decline. However, the bottle and container production still exists as an Irish company owning that part of Holmegaard and the new Holmegaard owned by Rosendahl producing glass abroad using the old designs together with modern glass design. Followed by the pages on the Holmegaard designers and their works.

I warmly recommend this impressive catalogue to students and collectors and all who want to know everything about Danish glass, artists and designers.
Angela van der Burght