Tapio Wirkkala
GLÖDLAMPOR, ett par, Tapio Wirkkala för Airam, Finland 1960.
Höjd 21 cm inkl. sockel.
Ej funktionstestade.
Provenance
Stiftelsen Formens Hus, Hällefors, nr 423.
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Originallådor medföljer.
Det ambitiösa projektet i Hällefors, med en postgymnasial designutbildning – FIDU (Förberedande
Industridesignutbildning) som tillsammans med reklammannen Torbjörn Lenskogs samling av
1900-talets industridesign har exponerats i ett för ändamålet skapad byggnad, har fått ett avslut.
En del av samlingen säljs på Höstens Contemporary på Bukowskis, och en del här på Bukowskis Market. Samlingen innehåller ett stort antal designföremål som väl representerar 1900-talets utveckling.
Från Formens Hus kommer även en intressant samling böcker som spänner över gränserna mellan arkitektur, konst och design. Bland annat finns det böcker av och om Le Corbusier, tidskrifter som berör Stockholmsutställningen 1930 samt H55, utställningskataloger från svenska och internationella konstutställningar samt en del intressanta internationella arkitekturböcker.
Samlingen Formens Hus utgjorde en ”Study Collection” för FIDUstudenterna
likväl som ett publikt museum.
Designer
Tapio Wirkkala (1915-1985) rose to world fame in the early 1950s following the breakthrough of Finnish industrial design. He was an exceptionally prolific artist who mastered almost any material and designed both everyday objects and unique works of art.
Wirkkala graduated as a decorative carver from Taideteollisuuskeskuskoulu (the School of Art and Design) in 1936, after succeeding in various design competitions, he began to gain a reputation as a pioneer of glass and silver. One of Wirkkala's most important partners in the silver industry was Kultakeskus, whose production he renewed in the 1950s. During the three decades of cooperation, Wirkkala designed a large number of products for Kultakeskus, many of which were forged by hand.
Tapio Wirkkala worked for several companies simultaneously on both serial production and more individual design work. Despite the variety of design tasks, certain themes can be seen repeated in his production. Wirkkala drew inspiration from the landscapes of Lapland, where he lived with his family for part of the year. The busy artist did not compromise on his travels to Lapland under any circumstances, and he travelled to the north regularly to explore nature and seek inspiration. The forms of snow and the melting ice was the inspiration behind many of his glass objects, and the shapes of boats and leaves came to serve as an inspiration for several silver objects, such as the TW9 silver bowl, which was commissioned and handcrafted for Kultakeskus.
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