Essential Design 
25 January 2024
Essential Design 
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Tapio Wirkkala

Coffee table, model 9011

Asko
Finland, 1958 / c. 1995
laminated birch, hazelwood inlay, enameled steel 16 h × 49 w × 24½ d in (41 × 124 × 62 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
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Brass manufacturer's label to underside ‘Tapio Wirkkala Asko Made in Finland 53/60’. This example is number 53 from the edition of 60 re-issued by Asko in the 1990s.
literature: Tapio Wirkkala: Eye, Hand and Thought, Saarela, pg. 380

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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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