Tapio Wirkkala Set of six candlesticks, model no. 189 designed 1957, executed 1959 Brass. Each: 23.3 cm (9 1/8 in.) high Serially produced by Kultakeskus Oy, Finland. Four impressed with HOPEAKESKUS OY/MADE IN FINLAND/DESIGN:/TAPIO WIRKKALA, one impressed KULTAKESKUS OY/DESIGN:/TAPIO WIRKKALA and one other impressed VILJO BESA/16.1.1959/KULTAKESKUS OY/DESIGN:/TAPIO WIRKKALA.
Literature Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine, eds., Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities: 1930-1997, exh. cat., The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New Haven, 1998, p. 171, fig. 7-13 Marianne Aav, Rosa Barovier Mentasti and Gordon Bowyer, et al., Tapio Wirkkala eye, hand and thought, exh. cat., Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, 2000, p. 29, figs. 70-71, p. 167, fig. 294, p. 363 Heikki Matiskainen, ed., Tapio Wirkkala Poet in Glass and Silver, exh. cat., Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, 2013, p. 216
Tapio Wirkkala Set of six candlesticks, model no. 189 designed 1957, executed 1959 Brass. Each: 23.3 cm (9 1/8 in.) high Serially produced by Kultakeskus Oy, Finland. Four impressed with HOPEAKESKUS OY/MADE IN FINLAND/DESIGN:/TAPIO WIRKKALA, one impressed KULTAKESKUS OY/DESIGN:/TAPIO WIRKKALA and one other impressed VILJO BESA/16.1.1959/KULTAKESKUS OY/DESIGN:/TAPIO WIRKKALA.
Literature Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine, eds., Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities: 1930-1997, exh. cat., The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New Haven, 1998, p. 171, fig. 7-13 Marianne Aav, Rosa Barovier Mentasti and Gordon Bowyer, et al., Tapio Wirkkala eye, hand and thought, exh. cat., Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, 2000, p. 29, figs. 70-71, p. 167, fig. 294, p. 363 Heikki Matiskainen, ed., Tapio Wirkkala Poet in Glass and Silver, exh. cat., Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, 2013, p. 216
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