Dish Designed by Carl Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand, Sweden, 1971

Dish designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand, Sweden. 1960s. Stoneware. Signed. Measurements: H: 6 cm / 2 1/4" Diameter: 18.5 cm / 7 1/4". Carl-Harry Stålhane (1920-1990) was born in the town of Mariestad, in the west of Sweden. As a child, he dreamed of being a successful painter. He started working for Rorstrand in neighboring Lidkoping at the age of 18. Initially, he decorated ceramic wares as assistant for the leading artist Gunnar Nylund. Carl-Harry decorated Rorstrand’s exclusive Flambé range as well as producing idyllic floral designs. In the mid 1940s, Carl-Harry Stålhane began to develop his own stoneware. He had his first solo exhibition in 1948, impressing the public with an ability to work in most contemporary styles of stoneware. But after studying in Paris in the late 1940s, Carl-Harry found a style that was truly his own. Inspired by the hunger for new products to meet the post-war economic boom, he developed from being a gifted decorator to a first-rate ceramic artist. He was praised for his "column-like, slender-necked stoneware vases with their peach surfaces", as one magazine put it. Spurred on by a deep love of the ceramic wares of the Far East, Carl-Harry liberated himself from the European tradition of ceramics, finding inspiration in foreign cultures, in Picasso and in constructivist art. The 1950s brought major successes: a diploma and a gold medal at Milan Triennials as well as solo exhibitions in Sweden, the UK and the USA. Carl-Harry commenced his career as an industrial designer in 1954. His Blanca tableware — in elegant white porcelain — was much in demand and gained him international prizes. He designed almost everything from numerous table sets decorations to rustic ashtrays. Carl-Harry Stålhane’s production of unique ceramic works of art increased notably in the late 1950s. In 1960 he reached something of a peak with an exhibition at Galerie Blanche in Stockholm. The exhibition showed robustly dark wares that were hailed as the new ceramics...

Dish designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand, Sweden. 1950s. Stoneware. Measures: Height: 3.2 cm / 1 1/4" Diameter: 18.5 cm / 7 1/4".

Dish designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Designhuset, Sweden, 1983. Stoneware. Measuresments: D: 28.5 cm/ 11 1/4". Carl-Harry Stålhane (1920-1990) was born in the town of Mariest...

Carl-Harry Stålhane Ceiling light designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand, Sweden, 1950s. Porcelain.

Vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand, Sweden, 1957. Stoneware. Signed. H: 52.5 cm D: 9 cm.

Vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand, Sweden, 1950s. Stoneware. Signed.

A large Scandinavian Modern “Torro” ceramic dish hand decorated with a blue and black pattern. This dishes are from a collaboration series by Carl Harry Stålhane and Aune Laukkanen f...

A unique bowl designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand. Features an interesting green and black glaze with some areas having brown and gold tones present. Beautifully executed p...

This large bowl is unique, handmade, numbered and signed by Carl-Harry Stålhane himself at Rörstrand during the 1950s. Stålhane later succeeded Gunnar Nylund as artistic leader of Rö...

A charming bowl designed by Carl Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand. Bowl features a grayish blue body with an off white rim, some hues to brown. A very attractive color and shape- closer ...

Carl-Harry Stålhane is one of Scandinavia’s most characteristic ceramic designers of all time. Stålhane was the Artistic Leader of Rörstrand (Lidköping) starting in the mid 50s. At t...

Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand dark blue ceramic trays Sweden, 1960. Set of tray and bowl large flat dark blue ceramic tray with rounded sides an...