Tapio Wirkkala - Important Nordic Design London Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    House Beautiful (New York), 'The most beautiful object of 1951', January 1952, pp. 66-67
    Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine, Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everday Realities, 1930-1997, New Haven, 1998, front cover, p. 232, fig. 10-1for a drawing, p. 244, fig. 10-8
    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, inside front cover, p. 63, fig. 130, p. 228, fig. 403, p. 267, fig. 460 and p. 288

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Large ‘Leaf’ platter

circa 1951
Laminated-birch plywood.
2 x 24 x 46 cm (0 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 18 1/8 in)
Produced by Martti Lindqvist, Finland. Underside incised with ‘W’.

Estimate
£7,000 - 9,000 ‡♠

Sold for £8,750

Important Nordic Design

27 September 2012
London