Essential Design 
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Essential Design 
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Tapio Wirkkala

Tokio vases, set of three

Iittala
Finland, 1954 / 1955-56
glass 11 h × 2½ w × 2¼ d in (28 × 6 × 6 cm) 7¼ h × 3½ dia in (18 × 9 cm) 4¼ h × 3¾ w × 3½ d in (11 × 10 × 9 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $2,772
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Etched signature to each example ‘Tapio Wirrkala Iittala’ with date to two examples ‘56’ and ‘55’, and numbered to one example ‘3527’.
provenance: Maharam Family Collection
literature: Tapio Wirkkala: Eye, Hand and Thought, Aav, pg. 276 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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