TAPIO WIRKKALA

Tapio Periainen [foreword]

8.75 x 10.25 soft cover book with 210 pages and 387 illustrations, some in color. Published in conjunction with The Finnish Society of Crafts and Design exhibition of the same name. This wide ranging collection includes Wirkkala's forays into glass, porcelain, cutlery, woodwork, metalwork, drawing, sculpture, exhibition design, graphic design and photography.

Contents

• Foreword by Tapio Periainen
• Hand and Eye: Interview with Tapio Wirkkala
• Picture Themesincludes Nature, Form and action, Form, material and production, Joining materials, Form and geometry, Texture and ornament, Human and animal figure, Sculpture and design, Colour and form
• Respect for Man and Nature: Tapio Wirkkala and His Work by Pekka Suhonen
• Picture Themesincludes Form in space: exhibition design, Symbolic form, Variations on a theme, Design detail, Serial form, Wirkkala and Lapland, Another Wirkkala
• Curriculum Vitae

Tapio Wirkkala graduated in 1936 as an ornamental sculptor from the department of sculpture of the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Helsinki. At the beginning of his career, he also worked as a commercial artist. Wirkkala won the art glass series of the Iittala glassworksÕ design competition in 1946 and was immediately hired by the factory. In 1947 he won a competition for the design of new bank notes for the Bank of Finland. Wirkkala is known as a highly versatile designer of glass, wood, porcelain, metal and plastics, and also as an exhibition architect and graphic designer.

Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.

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