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Tapio Wirkkala Coffee Table in Birch
By Tapio Wirkkala, Asko
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Tapio Wirkkala for Asko, cocktail table, oak, metal, Finland, 1960s. Coffee table with wooden inlay ornaments designed by Tapio Wirkala. The table is produced by Asko. This coffee t...
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Vintage 1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Tapio Wirkkala for Asko Cocktail Table in Birch
By Asko, Tapio Wirkkala
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Tapio Wirkkala for Asko, coffee table, birch, metal, Finland, 1960s. Coffee table with wooden inlay motifs designed by Tapio Wirkkala. The table is produced by Asko. This coffee table is one of Wirkkala's iconic furniture designs. Made with four oval shaped wood inlays that are made of the core of a tree with annual rings. Elegantly designed tapered legs with solid brass details. One of Finland's leading designers was Tapio Wirkkala (1915-1985) who made a great contribution to Scandinavian mid-century modern design of the 20th century. Born and raised in Helsinki, Wirkkala started his education at the National School of Applied Arts in the capital. Afterwards, he began his career in graphic design. At the age of twenty-five, the outbreak of the Second World War started and Wirkkala soon served the Finnish army. As the war ended in 1945, Wirkkala continued his work as a designer by joining the glass manufacturer ‘Iittala’, where he worked on numerous designs till the end of his life. Wirkkala's approach to design was highly innovative and ranged from furniture, porcelain, glass, jewelry and tableware. His talent excelled in combining organic forms into industrial manufactured designs. A striking example are his inlaid coffee tables that he designed for Asko. For this, he used laminated sheets of plywood sanded to a smooth surface that resembles an abstract leaf. It represents the main approach in his designs; a sculptural and elegant modern exterior...
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Vintage 1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Tapio Wirkkala for Asko Coffee Table in Birch with Inlays
By Tapio Wirkkala, Asko
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Tapio Wirkkala for Asko, side table, birch, plywood, steel, brass, Finland, 1960s Coffee table with plywood inlays designed by Tapio Wirkkala, manufactured by Asko. This rectangular...
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Vintage 1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Tapio Wirkkala for Asko Coffee Table in Teak and Birch
By Asko, Tapio Wirkkala
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Tapio Wirkkala for Asko, cocktail table, teak, birch, Finland, 1960s. Teak coffee table with wooden inlay ornaments designed by Tapio Wirkkala...
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Vintage 1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Tapio Wirkkala for Asko 'Nikke' Dining Chairs in Black Lacquered Plywood
By Tapio Wirkkala, Asko
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Tapio Wirkkala for Asko Oy, dining chairs, model '9019' steel, lacquered plywood, Finland, 1958 The Nikke chair, model ‘9019’ by Tapio Wirkkala for Asko ...
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Vintage 1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Dining Room Chairs

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Tapio Wirkkala for Idman Rare Desk Lamp in Brass and Glass
By Tapio Wirkkala, Idman Oy
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Tapio Wirkkala for Idman Oy, desk lamp, brass, glass, Finland, circa 1960 Among the nearly 100 lighting designs Tapio Wirkkala created for serial production, the majority were devel...
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Vintage 1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps

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Porcelain Wall Decoration by Tapio Wirkkala, Yearly Limited Edition 1971
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A Pair of Tapio Wirkkala Bronze Bird Sculptures, Kultakeskus Hämeenlinna, 1970s
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Black Loon Porcelain Figure by Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal, 1970s
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Black Loon Porcelain Figure by Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal, 1970s. Wirkkala, the Finnish designer and artist, created an iconic figure of a loon for the German porcelain company Ros...
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Dish Designed by Tapio Wirkkala, Finland, 1950s
By Tapio Wirkkala
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dish designed by Tapio Wirkkala, Finland, 1950s. Laminated birch. Signed. Dimensions: W: 19.4 cm/ 7 2/3" L: 36.7 cm/ 14 1/2" Tapio Wirkkala (1915-1985) can be described as one of the icons of Finnish design and a symbol of the international success of post-war Finnish design. Tapio Wirkkala studied sculpture at the Helsinki Central School of Industrial Design from 1933 until 1936, but he was also a self-studied artist in many areas, including glass design. His success as a glass artist began in 1946 when he designed one of his most famous works, the Kantarelli vase, for Iittala. Wirkkala gained worldwide success in 1951 at the Milan Triennial, where he received three Grand Prix awards: for the exhibition architecture, glass design and wooden sculptures. Tapio Wirkkala felt a deep relationship with nature and his absolute favourite spot was located in Finland's deepest forests. From the beautiful landscape, Tapio Wirkkala could find inspiration for his works, often characterised by organic shapes. Leaves, birds, ice and water are recurring themes in his design. Tapio Wirkkala was also a furniture designer and a sculptor. He started his career as a sculptor in the 1930s but abandoned the traditional sculpture in the post-war years – in the early 1950s, alongside with other works, he started to develop an entirely new relationship with sculpture and a new technique to be used. The result was a series of unique plywood sculptures which combined form and movement in the vibrant, densely lineated surface of plywood. Wirkkala’s sculptures represented exceptional abstractism and gave Finnish sculpture...
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