Scandinavian Design 
27 April 2023
Scandinavian Design 
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Tapio Wirkkala

Tokio vase

Iittala
Finland, 1955
glass 5 h × 4 w × 3½ d in (13 × 10 × 9 cm)
estimate: $700–900
result: $1,386
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Etched signature to underside ‘Tapio Wirkkala Iittala 55’.
literature: Tapio Wirkkala: Eye, Hand and Thought, Aav, pg. 226 illustrates related form

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My artistic world is the shape of my way of living and working. It has grown through those experiences which are everyday life to people living in the North. One can see the same continuous process of creating the phenomena in nature as there is in man. Repeated process—winter, spring, summer, autumn—and still always new and surprising.

Tapio Wirkkala

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