Vase Littala Finland design

Littala, finland, circa 1990. Thick glass double-neck vase, original label of the house ittala finland. Heavy model. 21.5 cm high. 20 cm wide. 7.5 cm deep. Clean, fast and neat shipping or hand delivery to paris / laon. In 1881, the glass factory was founded in iittala, a small village 130 km north of helsinki, by the swedish peter magnus abrahamson. At that time, labor was imported from sweden because there were no glassblowers yet in finland. In 1917, the a. Ahlström company, which already owned the karhula glass factory, bought the iittala factory. The result is the karhula-iittalan glass factory, which existed until the 1950s. At first, the factory mainly manufactured pharmaceutical bottles, oil lamps, but already produced a certain amount of tableware, mainly table glasses. In the 1920s and 1930s, the company expanded, turning to more artistic, experimental, but also domestic products. One of the first successes is the savoy vase designed by architect and designer alvar aalto. During the war, production was interrupted due to a lack of raw materials and manpower. In 1946, production began again, and iittala enjoyed continued success until the oil crisis of 1976. It was then necessary to reduce the infrastructure and the workforce, until the 1980s. In addition, iittala faces strong foreign competition. Since its creation, iittala has attached great importance to the design of its objects. The designers with whom iittala has collaborated are numerous: alvar aalto, aino aalto, konstantin grcic, alfredo häberli, harri koskinen. Iittala's design tradition in the design of glass containers and art glassware dates back to the 1930s, as evidenced by early works such as the aino aalto series, designed by aino aalto in 1932, alvar aalto's savoy vase from 1936, .