It all started with a longing to do something in ceramics again – a material that glass-artist and designer Ann Wåhlström refers to as her “first material”. As a teenager Ann Wåhlström dreamed of becoming a potter but in due course she transferred her affection to glass. Since training in ceramics at Capellagården on the Baltic island of Öland she has almost exclusively worked with glass and is recognized today as one of Sweden’s leading glass artists – a designer who mixes her traditional schooling in Sweden with the more experimental approach that prevails in the USA. As she explains about her encounter with glass: “I was bitten by glass while at the glass training school at Orrefors in 1979, and the rest is history …”