Iittala’s newest glass collaborator, Swedish designer Matti Klenell, has drawn his inspiration from magpies for the firm's latest bird collection.

Their penchant for stealing jewellery and other shiny objects and hiding them in their nests has been incorporated by Klenell into the idea of decorative glass boxes; since the hollow bottom sections of his birds can be used as handy little containers to keep treasures, such as jewellery, notes, and memories, just like the magpie.

Klenell has designed two bird families for Iittala: the Harakka (Magpie) family and the Korpi (Deep Forest) family, with five members in each – all different and drawing on the varied skills of the glassblowers and craftsmen at Iittala’s Nuutajärvi glassworks.

Super cute.