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Product description
And then there was atmosphere....... Beautiful in shape and lines. Super cool and trendy bronze candlestick that adds an extra to your living moment as an atmosphere and decoration piece.
Completely the trend of the moment and actually timeless. Made in the early 1970s.
It is 14 cm high and 14 cm wide. High quality made. Weight : 0.8 kg.
History of the coaster is also fun to know and you will find out what Tapio Wikkala has meant to the arts and Finland.
Designer and sculptor Tapio Wirkkala was born in Hanko, Finland in 1915. In the 1920s he moved with his family to Helsinki, where he studied decorative sculpture at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1933 to 1936. Furniture and glassware, his output was prolific. He designed sculptural wooden bowls, plywood objects, silver and bronze pieces (notably for Christofle), exhibition pavilions (including the Finnish installations at the Milan Triennials in 1951 and 1954, for which he won the Grand Prix earned on both occasions), and everyday items such as banknotes and cutlery. During his career, Wirkkala also designed glass and porcelain for Rosenthal. His earlier designs embraced the utilitarian beauty of Finnish functionalism, but were inspired by natural forms from the 1950s.
In 1946, Wirkkala entered a glass design competition organized by Iittala and shared the first prize with Kaj Franck. In 1947 he became artistic director of the Finnish glass factory Iittala Glassworks; his relationship with the company would last throughout his life. Between 1955 and 1956, Wirkala worked for industrial designer Raymond Loewy in New York. In 1956 he became artistic director of A-Studio, A. Ahlström's design studio in Helsinki. In 1966 he founded his own studio, Design Tapio Wirkkala.
Wirkkala's work has been exhibited widely and is included in esteemed collections around the world, including the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both in New York; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Bavarian National Museum, Munich; the National Museum, Stockholm; the Royal Museum, Edinburgh; and the Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, New York.
Wirkkala died in Helsinki in 1985.
Specifications
ConditionVery goodColorsGoldMaterialBronzeNumber of items1StyleVintageHeight14 cmWidth14 cmDepth14 cm