Stig Lindberg?

This isn't Stig Lindberg is it? It's not like any other SL designs I've seen (I don't like the decoration on this vase to be honest and I've not yet found a SL design I don't like) and the ones I've owned/handled all had his 'hand' signature mark to the underside. I'd tend to think that the 'DA' on the base of this pot would be the initials of the designer. What does everyone else think?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-STIG-LINDBERG-GRAZIA-GUSTAVSBERG-VASE-1960-S-NR_W0QQitemZ390146152325

I've found this vase which again doesn't have his hand mark and has a different initial to the base (DM this time) but is also attributed to SL. However this one I do like but the style of the design looks to me to be very different from the one on eBay.

http://www.modernity.se/20th-Century-Design/Gustavsberg/Stig-Lindberg/ArtID/1445/Vase-Grazia-Designed-by-Stig-Lindberg-for-Gustavsberg.aspx

there's nothing about it that makes me think it's the work of Stig Lindberg

The one on ebay had a big ole chip on the rim Pip, you didn't really want that did you?

Carolyn

No Carolyn, I didn't want to buy it, I absolutely hated it! I just couldn't understand where they got their Stig Lindberg attribution from since it looks nothing like anything he's ever done.

http://www.freeformsusa.com/ceramics/stig.htm

Gustavberg Grazia on freeforms

http://www.deconet.com/decopedia/object/79557/Grazia_by_Stig_Lindberg

Another one , so it might be by Stig , the style is similar

[quote="big ed"]http://www.freeformsusa.com/ceramics/stig.htm

Wow! What an amazing website,I could spend thousands of pounds there if they had a half price clearance sale

I could lose myself for days just looking at the stock,I have seen examples of those potters work but they are selling the cream

big ed wrote:http://www.deconet.com/decopedia/object/79557/Grazia_by_Stig_Lindberg

Another one , so it might be by Stig , the style is similar

I still hate it though - Stig must have been having an off day when he designed those.

Yeah , I generally like his stuff ,but not that one .

Hiya

Definitely Stig Lindberg.

Don't be fooled by the "hand" mark. This not Stig Lindberg's signature - it only denotes that the piece was handmade. There are many pieces with the hand mark that have nothing to do with Stig Lindberg as the other designer/throwers at Gustavsberg used it too.

Similarly, there are many ranges that Stig designed for Gustavsberg which were cast and don't have a "hand" mark. For example, like the Grazia range, the Reptil, Domino, Veckla and Pungo ranges don't have any Stig related markings on them (although many have stickers with "designed by Stig Lindberg" on the base).



Kurt