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Ingegerd Råman
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Ingegerd Raman, born in Stockholm on 19 July 1943, has spent more than half a century working at the point where glass and ceramics meet, two materials that share an interest in surface, transparency, and the way light moves through form. Her education covered both disciplines: she trained under Carl Malmsten at Capellagarden on the island of Oland, went on to Konstfack in Stockholm, and then spent a period studying ceramic chemistry at the Istituto Statale d'Arte per la Ceramica in Faenza, Italy.
She opened her first ceramics studio in Skane in 1967 before moving into glass the following year, joining Johansfors glassworks in 1968. After a period away, she returned to Swedish glass when Skruf relaunched in 1981, becoming the house's head designer. The Bellman drinking glass series, developed at Skruf, remains in production decades later, a sign of how well the design sits within the constraints of everyday use. The question she has said she starts from is direct: what do I want to use, and what is easy to use. The aesthetic follows from there.
In the late 1990s, Raman joined Orrefors, where she spent roughly 13 years developing collections including Slowfox, Pond, Lumiere, and Cut in Number. The Orrefors period deepened her international profile considerably. Water functions as a recurring reference in her thinking: she is drawn to the way glass can suggest weight, movement, and clarity simultaneously, and her pieces tend toward restraint rather than decoration. A 1982 trip to Japan proved formative, introducing her to a design culture that shared her emphasis on material honesty and considered simplicity.
Her work is held in the collections of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Riihimaki Glass Museum in Finland. The Swedish government has awarded her the title of Professor, and H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf presented her with the Prince Eugen Medal. In 2019 she was named Nationalmuseum's Portrait of Honour.
At auction, Ingegerd Raman's output is represented almost entirely through glass, which accounts for 76 of the 90 items in our database. The market is concentrated among southern and central Swedish houses, Crafoord Auktioner Lund leads with 13 lots, followed by Helsingborgs Auktionskammare with 10. Top results include a White Frost vase from Orrefors at 4,000 SEK, a Bellman wine glass at 3,600 EUR, and a Slowfox champagne glass at 2,700 EUR.