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Lead image Kaj Franck Kremlin Kellot (Kremlin Bells) decanter and pitcher, designed for Nuutajärvi Notsjö in 1957, in smoke-grey, bottle-green and ruby-red glass. For sale in the UK from Nordic design gallery Art & Utility.
Kremlin Bells glass juice set by Kaj Franck for Nuutajärvi, smoke-grey pitcher topped by a green decanter with a red ball stopper. Museum quality Finnish Modernist design.
Top part of a Kaj Franck Kremlin Kellot for Nuutajärvi Notsjö, Finland, showing the distinctive stacked silhouette of the celebrated 1957 glass design.
A rare vintage 1957 Kaj Franck Kremlin Kellot juice set, comprising a smoke-grey water pitcher and bottle-green decanter crowned by a ruby-red stopper. For sale in the UK.
Detail of base of a Kaj Franck Kremlin Bells decanter and pitcher showing the ingenious stacking arrangement of the two separate glass vessels.
Kremlin Kellot by Kaj Franck, seperated into two sections. The pitcher is in smoke-grey, whereas the decanter is in bottle-green with a ruby-red glass ball stopper. A most collectible example of Finnish Modernist design.
Smoke-grey round glass pitcher with a wide bulbous base and a short cylindrical neck, forming the broad lower section of Kaj Franck's Kremlin Kellot stacking juice set.
Detail of top half of smoke grey coloured glass pitcher forming the bulbous lower section of Kaj Franck's Kremlin Kellot stacking juice set.
Close up of mouth and pouring lip of a smoke-grey glass pitcher forming the broad lower section of Kaj Franck's Kremlin Kellot or Kremlin Bells decanter stacking juice set.
A round, smoke-gray Kremlin Kellot glass pitcher or carafe with a short cylindrical neck, lying on its side. Design by Kaj Franck for Nuutajärvi Notsjö, 1957,
Close-up of the bottom of a smoke grey glass pitcher with handwritten signature inscription. The makers mark on this Kremlin Kellot /Kremlin Bells decanter and pitcher set reads; K. Franck, Nuutajärvi Notsjö, 1959.
Two vintage glass vessels that form a sculptural Kremlin Kellot decanter and pitcher by Kaj Franck. The decanter is in green with a dark red spherical stopper, and the other is a large, bulb-shaped grey glass pitcher. The contrasting colours by Nuutajärvi Notsjö emphasis the designs distinctive form when stacked.
Disassembled Kaj Franck Kremlin Kellot glass set, a Nuutajärvi Notsjö design exhibited at the 11th Milan Triennale in 1957.
A red glass decanter stopper with a rounded bulbous top and a natural cork base, standing upright. This brilliant ruby-red spherical stopper crowns a Kaj Franck Kremlin Bells / Kellot decanter set.
A round glass bottle stopper in deep burgundy red. This decanter stopper is from a Kaj Franck Kremlin Kellot /Kremlin Bells decanter. Photographed for UK gallery Art & Utility, who specialise in Scandinavian design.
A green decanter with red ball stopper, the top section of a Kremlin Bells juice set by Kaj Franck for Nuutajärvi Notsjö, the celebrated Finnish glass design associated with Franck's 1957 Milan Grand Prix.
A close-up of a green glass bottle showing ripples in the glass. Kaj Franck Kremlin Kellot decanter from 1957, a sought-after example of post-war Finnish glass design.
Detail of the base and heel of a mid-century Finnish glass decanter by Kaj Franck, this piece is part of a Kremlin Kellot or Kremlin Bells decanter set.
A playful artistic image showing a vintage collectable Kaj Franck Kremlin Kellot juice set for Nuutajärvi, with contrasting coloured components that have been stacked unusually.
Kaj Franck 'Kremlin Bells' Decanter & Pitcher
Nuutajärvi Notsjö

Kaj Franck 'Kremlin Bells' Decanter & Pitcher

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A 'Kremlin Kellot', or 'Kremlin Bells', decanter & pitcher, designed by Kaj Franck for Nuutajärvi Notsjö, Finland, in 1957.

One of Franck's most celebrated and sought-after glass designs, Kremlin Kellot transforms a practical household object into something wonderfully sculptural. Designed as a juice set, the lower pitcher was intended for water, while the decanter stacked above it held concentrated juice. The individual components were available in different colours, allowing many contrasting combinations to be assembled.

This example brings together a smoke-grey pitcher and bottle-green decanter, crowned by a brilliant ruby-red ball stopper. The wonderfully evocative name refers to the colourful, bulbous onion domes associated with Moscow's Kremlin area, most famously those of St Basil's Cathedral on Red Square.

Despite its extraordinary appearance, Kremlin Kellot was conceived as utility glass. Its ingenious stacking arrangement recalls laboratory and scientific glassware, an influence often seen in Franck's work.

Kremlin Kellot was exhibited at the 11th Milan Triennale in 1957, where Franck received the Grand Prix, the highest award, for the design.

Model number: KF 500, KF 1500

Model Name: ‘Kremlin Kellot’ (Kremlin Bells)

Designer: Kaj Franck

Manufacturer: Nuutajärvi Notsjö

Year of Design: 1957

Date Produced: 1959

Colour: Red, green, smoke-grey

Full Height: 36 cm, Height of Decanter w. Stopper: 21 cm, Diameter: 6.7 cm, Height of Carafe: 20 cm, ⌀ 14 cm

Condition: Excellent. Ripples in glass at heel of decanter. See photographs.

Branding: Hand etched signature & date to carafe, ‘K. Franck Nuutajärvi Notsjö -59’.