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Alvar Aalto, Savoy Aalto Vase 16 cm, Iittala Finland

Alvar Aalto, Savoy Aalto Vase 16 cm, Iittala Finland

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Vintage Savoy vase by Finnish designers and architects Alvar Aalto and Aino Aalto. Made by Iittala Finland.

Height is 16 cm. Excellent vintage condition. It is marked by Iittala: Alvar Aalto. 

Why buy Aalto vase?

This star couple conceived it in 1936 as part of an art glass competition by the flagship factory Karhula-Iittala.

It's called an icon of Finnish design, it's in the top 100 design objects from around the world, and it's considered Aalto's most famous work in art glass. It combines the functionality of a vase, an everyday object, and a conceptual work of art, making it an art object in itself.

The vase became famous almost immediately: among other items, it represented Finland at the World Expo in Paris in 1937. Alvar and Aino used the new vase in the interiors of the Savoy restaurant in the center of Helsinki, hence the name stuck.

Although in one of the initial versions, Aalto named the vase Eskimo Leather Pants. Its shapes somehow reminded the designer of women's pants from the far North.

However, for the Savoy, Aalto sketched it in the style of the then-fashionable Nordic cubism. And its form, resembling both a wave and the shoreline of a lake or island, is actually an abstraction.

But most often this vase is known by the creators' surname. It's most commonly referred to as simply the Aalto vase. And that's not accidental either. In Finnish, Aalto means Wave.

All of Savoys still made by hand.

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