Textured glass |
The superlative skills of Scandinavian glassmakers were by no means limited to colored art glass. They also excelled in the field of textured and custom engraved glass, none more so than Timo Sarpaneva and Tapia Wirkkala, who designed for the Finnish firm Iittala. Their careers followed a similar path–both had a background in sculpture and worked with metal, plastic, and wood as well as with glass. Both were also invited to contribute designs to Murano glassmakers. They began their careers at Iittala within a few years of each other, Wirkkala in 1946, and Sarpaneva in 1950.
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