Carina Seth Andersson’s quietly thoughtful work in glass and ceramics often holds something unexpected. Moving between design, art and craft, her work can be found in the permanent collections of several European museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. In 2024, Seth Andersson was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal.

With Cube, the glass vase designed for Fogia in 2018, she plays with proportion to create an object that feels both familiar and slightly unexpected. Each vase is made by highly skilled glassblowers at Skruf Glasbruk in Småland, Sweden.

Molten glass settles into the mould, where subtle vibrations leave a soft relief across the surface, reminiscent of rings on water. Colour gathers and shifts within the material rather than appearing completely uniform. It is a process that leaves room for variation – and for the hand of the maker to remain visible.

No two Cube vases are exactly alike. Subtle differences in tone and form are not deviations from the design, but part of its expression.

There is something archaic about Cube – a sense of a fleeting moment made solid. Part of this comes from its simple form, and part from glass itself: a material shaped through an interplay of the basic elements of fire, air, earth and water.

For Carina Seth Andersson, it may also have something to do with the kind of object Cube is: “There’s something utterly primordial about vessels as objects.”

Glass is a material she knows intimately, yet one she describes through its contradictions: precious yet commonplace, solid yet liquid, fragile yet durable. A glass object can, in principle, last forever. Or it can shatter into a thousand pieces in a moment.

The Cube collection continues to explore proportion through different scales. Cube Vase Tall extends Carina Seth Andersson’s original form into a taller, more open silhouette, allowing fuller bouquets and longer stems to unfold more freely. Paired with Cube Vase Small and Cube Vase Large, the three versions form a natural ensemble while remaining complete objects on their own.