Tapio Wirkkala - Design New York Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Edgar Kaufmann Jr, “The Wonderworks of Tapio Wirkkala”, Interiors, November 1951, p. 95 for similar examples
    Domus (Milan), vol. 259, 1951, p. 18 for similar examples
    Domus (Milan), vol. 266, January 1952, masthead, pp. 18, 44 for similar examples
    'Forms in Glass and Plywood', Arts & Architecture, July 1953, pp. 20-21 for similar examples
    Marianne Aav and Nina StritzlerLevine, eds., Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997, New York, 1998, p. 247 for similar examples
    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, pp. 224, 252, fig. 435, p. 262, fig. 455 for similar examples

207

'Leaf' dish

circa 1951
Laminated-birch plywood.
1 1/2 x 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 in (3.7 x 17.6 x 13.2 cm)
Produced by Martti Lindqvist, Finland. Underside incised with ‘W’.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Design

12 December 2012
New York