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Title: nuutajarvi vase, any ideas on designer & age??
Post by: jonchellycain on August 10, 2009, 07:20:55 PM

Hi there
does anybody have any ideas who may have designed/made this Nuutajarvi vase?? or have an idea on when it would have been made.
It has a silver foil sticker with a blue fish shape with silver writting NUUTAJARVI 1792  WARTSILA FINLAND
The vase stands at 17.5cms tall thin clear glass  with a thicker base which has a bubbled dark coffee brown effect around the bulbous base (on the internal wall)
many thanks
michelle

Title: Re: nuutajarvi vase, any ideas on designer & age??
Post by: Ivo on August 10, 2009, 07:26:09 PM

probably Oiva Toikka  - he was fond of bubbles!

Title: Re: nuutajarvi vase, any ideas on designer & age??
Post by: jonchellycain on August 10, 2009, 07:29:44 PM

thank you Ivo  :thup:, i had hovered over him and thought maybe but my knowledge of Nuutajarvi is sadly lacking :-[

Title: Re: nuutajarvi vase, any ideas on designer & age??
Post by: rocco on December 08, 2011, 12:54:46 PM

Björn Weckström, "Kanerva", 1977 -- http://www.designlasi.com/content/kanerva-weckstrom-bjorn (http://www.designlasi.com/content/kanerva-weckstrom-bjorn)

Michael

Title: Re: nuutajarvi vase, any ideas on designer & age??
Post by: Greg. on December 08, 2011, 01:28:34 PM

Just to add I gather the blue fish logo was used between 1977 through to around 93. Although as Michael's link shows production of this design ended in 87.

Title: Re: nuutajarvi vase, any ideas on designer & age??
Post by: mikkonen1337 on December 09, 2011, 07:26:42 AM

This vase is by Bjorn Weckström - famous finnish jewelery designer
Name - Kanerva
Production years - 1978-1986

Title: Re: nuutajarvi vase, any ideas on designer & age??
Post by: jonchellycain on December 09, 2011, 08:25:22 AM

Many thanks everyone will add the details to the databank.
Fabulous to get an older one solved  :smg:
michelle
all updated in the picasa now
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/FinnishDanishNorwegian?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Title: Re: nuutajarvi vase, any ideas on designer & age??
Post by: px on December 10, 2011, 12:55:50 PM

One more addition: "Kanerva" is a series of 5 different vases and a plate.
The bubbles were created with a metal powder. (some kind of thermographic one Weckström was familiar with having been a sculptor too)