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About Erika Lagerbielke

Erika Lagerbielke is one of Sweden's most renowned designers and glass artists, and her work is internationally acclaimed and appreciated. Lagerbielke works primarily with glass and has collaborated with Orrefors and Kosta Boda since 1982. She is active as a glass artist and designer with a special interest in site-specific art and public commissions and has extensive experience of liturgical projects. Together with Tomas Åhlman, she runs her own company, Erika Lagerbielke & Co AB.

Lagerbielkes designs are characterised by innovation and functionality with strong artistic expression. She specialises in designing stemware with a focus on the wine experience and the well-laid laid table. Her most well-known stemware designs are Intermezzo, the glass with a drop in blue or gold, the design Merlot, the connoisseur wine glass Difference, and the series More.

Lagerbielke has had numerous solo exhibitions internationally. Her glass art has been particularly noted for her use of light, transparency and colours in powerful expressions. In her work, she explores different artistic directions in parallel, with the common denominator that her long experience of glass as both material and craft always have notable presence in her works.

Erika Lagerbielke has had several prestigious commissions, such as the wedding gift to the Crown Princess couple 2010, from the Swedish Parliament and Government, the chain of office for the Vice-Chancellor and the maze for Linnaeus University. Her liturgical work includes a Bishop’s crozier for the Diocese of Växjö, a stained-glass window and a glass relief for the altar in the crypt of Lund Cathedral, a wall relief for St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lund, stained-glass windows for Emmaboda Parish and a baptismal bowl for Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, GB.

During the years 2005 to 2026, Erika Lagerbielke acted a professor in design at Linnaeus University. Her research interests include artistic research with a focus on glass art, the cultural development of glass in Sweden, the materiality and culture of meals, and the sustainable development of glass. Since 2026, she has been professor emerita, affiliated with Linnaeus University.

In 2010, she was awarded by H. M. The King of Sweden with the Prince Eugen Medal for outstanding artistic achievement. In 2014, she was awarded by the City of Stockholm with the S: t Erik’s medal.

She is a member of several associations dealing with design, culinary arts, and intellectual property, such as: KRO (The Artists' Association of Sweden), as well as the Swedish Academy of Culinary Arts, the Småland Academy, the Glass Academy, the Småland & Öland Gastronomic Academy, the Swedish Beverage Academy, the Swedish Design Academy and The Contemporary Glass Society, GB.

2026-02-04