Johansfors

Johansfors glassworks is a glassworks in Johansfors in Emmaboda municipality in Kalmar county, Småland, Sweden.

Johansfors glassworks was founded in 1891 and became part of the merger Orrefors Kosta Boda AB in 1990. The former glassworks buildings gained new owners in 2011 and "Johansfors Future Spirit, JFS" was lacquered.

In 1889, a stained glass window was founded in the former dairy at Sliparedammen in Johansfors. Raw glass was purchased from other glassworks, it was decorated and resold. The business went so well that two years later they started their own production of glass. Johansfors glassworks was inaugurated in August 1891. Those decades primarily produced the pressure for households, but also ground and painted glass were manufactured. In the 1920s, people began to make glass with the term "beautiful utensils". The influences of the Ellen Key and the Arts and Crafts movement in England involved letting artists design beautiful but inexpensive tools for the working class.

During the crisis years of the 1930s, much work was done with stained glass to hide the impure glass mass. Bengt Orup was the mill's artistic director in the years 1952-1973. His stylish crockery from the 1950s was very popular. Other artists who have been employed at Johansfors include Erik Hennix, Margareta Hennix, Ingegerd Råman, Bertil Vallien and Christopher Ramsey.

Johansfors glassworks buildings were bought in 2011 by the company ConDeVent, which had plans to produce rum in the glassworks. However, it did not come to anything. The concierge home at the glassworks housed the Crystal Museum until 2015, when the museum was moved to The Glass Factory at Boda glassworks.