Alvar Aalto
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a mould blown glass vase, part of the 'Eskimoerindens skinnbuxa' series, by Karhula, Finland 1930's.
Brown tinted glass, blown into a wooden mould, signed Alvar Aalto - Karhula. Measurements 30,5 x 28 cm, height 24,5 cm.
A few small rim chips.
Literature
Pirkko Tuukkanen (ed), 'Alvar Aalto Designer', Alvar Aalto Museum 2002, compare variants of this model in green glass, p 196, 199.
More information
The model was designed in 1936 as part of the 'Eskimoerindens skinnbuxa' series which won first prize in a design competition organized by the Karhula - Iittala Glassworks in 1936.
Designer
Alvar Aalto is one of Finland's most prominent architects and designers and one of Scandinavia's biggest proponents of modern architecture and design. Several of the furniture and vases he designed are today considered iconic design classics, including the Savoy vases, the Beehive lamp, and Armchair, model '31'.Alvar Aalto is the most internationally famous Finnish architect and designer. Aalto was a great ambassador for Finnish design at a time when the Finnish people were thinking about how to present themselves to the rest of the world. He gave equal weight to form and function, and was inspired by the Finnish landscape. Aalto is one of the most important representatives of modern architecture and has created its own architecture direction, whose aesthetic effect is based on careful planning of the buildings in relation to the environment, a human dimension and good sense of material.
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