Scandinavian Design 
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Tapio Wirkkala

Vase

Iittala
Finland, 1948-1951
blown glass with internal bubble decoration 4½ h × 3⅛ dia in (11 × 8 cm)
estimate: $300–500
result: $882
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Etched signature to underside ‘Tapio Wirkkala Iittala’.
provenance: Private Collection
literature: Tapio Wirkkala: Eye, Hand and Thought, Museum of Art and Design Helsinki, pg. 295

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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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