has acquired a very rare Jugendstil table lamp from 1915. It is
one of only two known objects designed by Axel Enoch Boman for
Orrefors. The lamp can be seen in the exhibition Light and
Darkness which runs until 3 February. The mountings are in
copper with relief decoration and the electric light, a modern
item at the time, illuminates both the base and the shade. The
glass shade has a green background with horse-chestnut leaves in
orange overlay, and is signed ORREFORS HW. HW stands for
Heinrich Wollman, who was a talented etcher fromAustria. The
difficult glassblowing work was carried out by another important
craftsman at the factory Knut Bergqvist. At the time that the
lamp was made, he was developing the overlay technique that came
to be known as the Ariel technique. Around the turn of the last
century, Axel Enoch Boman (1875-1949) was employed at Kosta and
then in 1903 at Reijmyre, tasked with engraving overlay glass
with designs by Anna and Ferdinand Boberg, Alf Wallander and
Gunnar G:son Wennerberg. He