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Designlasin hintakirja Questions and a few vases
David555:
Thanks Tmaritta for info on Karhula-Nuutajarvi-Iittala and also Vecila on such detauiled information on Riihimaen
Adam P
Ivo:
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So the Tuulikki series, Trumpet, Carmen, Taalari, Tornado, Välkky, Solmuke, etc. pieces by Aladin are not there.
Rocket vase not there by Okkolin (sniff)
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designlasin hintakirja only includes works by the designers listed on the cover - these are Aalto Franck Hopea Nyman Sarpaneva Still Tynell and Wirkkala - not Aladin or Okkolin.
Max:
I'm getting really confused, so apologies if I've misinterpreted.
Of course I rate Tamara Aladin as a designer, I don't think I gave the impression that I didn't. :?:
Tiimalasi is on page 234 of Designlasin.
Naturally anything by Okkolin or Aladin isn't in Designlasin, because it doesn't cover those designers.
Thanks for the website www.antiikkijataidekirjat.com I'll have a look around later when my headache clears. :x
I can't think what Fossil by Tynell looks like, so I'll have to bow out of commenting on that one.
Glen:
My knowledge of the Karhula, Iittala and Riihimaki companies is primarily based around their Carnival Glass output - circa mainly late 1920s and 1930s. However, I can add a little to the timeline above, and comment on their separate entities.
Though Karhula and Iittala merged in 1915, they still continued to mark their glass separately, and to offer their own product lines via their own catalogues, as well as also producing some joint catalogues. Of course, they were not physically proximate - Iittala being just south of Tampere and Karhula well to the east of Helsinki.
In 1922 they issued a joint Karhula-Iittala catalogue of pressed glass in which the Karhula lines were suffixed with a K and the Iittala ones with an I. However, there are other catalogues (certainly through the 1930s) that are purely Iittala or purely Karhula.
One such, the 1933 Karhula catalogue, shows a superb range of cut crystal. Riihimaki and Karhula were the leading manufacturers of crystal glassware during the 1920s and early 1930s: in fact Karhula "led the field" for many years.
Around this period they also both made Carnival, though Karhula made more (and better) of it than Iittala. Examples with the moulded word Iittala or Karhula are known (and prized). Some of the world's most sought after Carnival was made by Karhula - for example, the Britt water set.
As a post script, I would also like to add one very important stage in the Riihimaki history that has been omitted in the contributions above. In around 1927, Kauklahti (Espoo) merged into Riihimaki. This was very significant in that many of their moulds were subsequently used by Riihimaki.
Glen
robbo:
A little more on the later history of Karhula -
Their production of moulded and art glass was transferred to Iittala in 1954, after which the works produced just container glass - bottles, jars etc. Production of this had started in 1945. As said previously, it is now part of Owens-Illinois Inc.
They have a current product catalogue on their website, complete with line drawings, arranged by foodstuff type. http://www.karhulanlasi.fi/
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