Enjoy good fortune, prosperity, and love all year round with the Orrefors Midsummer Mini Vase series designed in collaboration with studio Claesson Koivisto Rune.

Many Modernists reject ornamental objects in an effort to preserve clutter-free surfaces and uninterrupted architectural lines ? often forgetting that personal possessions imbue spaces with great meaning. Orrefors Glassworks teams up with internationally renowned architect and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune to deliver the Midsummer Mini Vase series, seven tabletop vessels that capture the spirit of Swedish tradition. The allegorical artifacts regale viewers with a romantic tale in a rebuke to categorization as tchotchkes.

So the Midsummer-eve?s tale goes, future prosperity in love comes to those who collect and place seven types of flowers under their pillow on the occasion. And those looking to extend the good fortune beyond the longest day of the year may do so with a subtle bouquet of petite vases. Comprising seven unique forms in similar heights, and offered in a pale watercolor-like palette, each objet d’art takes a name derived from native flowers approved by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. It is perhaps the most quaint, quintessential, and now globally accessible practice for those who wish to participate.
?The Midsummer series manifests the essence of modern Scandinavian design by marrying essential style with human warmth,? says Eero Koivisto, co-founder of Stockholm-ba...