Humppila Finland, REVONTULI glass platter

Humppila is one of the Finland traditional glass makers with very recognizable designs by several famous designers. Tauno Wirkkala, not sure he has any relation to the other famous Wirkkala, is one of the designers who worked for Humppila. He made some stunning and creative designs, very bold, with organic forms and ombré finishing to the glass. I find this ombré color changing from a darker brown shade to clear glass via amber and yellow stunning. His pieces are bottom signed, etched with his name and the company. This design is called REVONTULI and is for sale in our shop. 

Check the this beautiful item in our shop here 

Arabia Finland FLORA: Flower Sales Power...

Listed these lovely FLORA tea cups in my shop at the end of the day yesterday and moved forward to make some dinner... before I could finish eating my dinner the cups were sold... That was a record. 

Arabia Finland FLORA  is a very attractive series, Esteri Tomula designs in general are highly attractive and tend to fetch a lot of money and sell quite fast and there are buyers out there hunting them all the time. However, I thought that my recently sourced set of tea cups were not the most attractive cups out there because, even if the cups per se were in fabulous condition, the saucers were ruined... completely wasted and destroyed from too much washing and scratching... guess their previous owner used the saucers more than the cups... The saucers are in such a bad condition that I decided to list the cups without the saucers because they are not worth the cost of shipping...

So, off they go... what are the odds? these lovely saucer-less cups are going back to Finland, they found a new home in their home country... 

A happy ending story. Love those.

It is not possible to see from this angle but the saucer in the picture is in terrible shape... the glaze is completely scratched and gone, puff, destroyed... such a pity. Heavy dish washer use and cutlery marks. 

Magnor Glass at the Oslo Design Fair SS2018

These are just some quick pictures of the stand og Magnor Glass of Norway at the Oslo Design Fair Spring Summer 2018 last month in Lillestrøm fair hall. 

I love everything about this collection, the colors, the forms and specially those dark grey light pendants. Bravo Magnor. Great collection.

More images from Oslo Design Fair SS 2018 in my previous post.

 

Oslo Design Fair Spring Summer 2018

   

Some pictures I took during my visit of Oslo Design Fair last month. The 2018 Spring Summer collection shown there was filled with beautiful colorful pieces and I simply loved a lot of what I saw. Loads of brass items and other yellow painted metals as statement pieces. Lots of bold and warming colors like old pink, browns, yellows, old blues and greens, dark glass lights and many, many shades of grey. All these pictures, no matter how bad some of them may look, has at least one little detail that I loved or liked... 

So many of the pieces in exhibition were clearly inspired by mid century modern vintage design and will be filling up the shelves of shops near your soon... I still recommend you buy the original design for a fraction of the price of the new ones but with double originality...

Enjoy the pictures.