TAPIO WIRKKALA, DESIGN LEGEND FROM FINLAND

SEPTEMBER 2003: Apartment Zero executed a collaborative effort with the Embassy of Finland, who with the Finnish Museum of Art and Design presented the exhibition, Tapio Wirkkala. This was the first comprehensive view of the enormous genius of Tapio Wirkkala (1915-1985), a pioneer of Finnish industrial art and a symbol of the international success of postwar Finnish design. The exhibition revealed his enormous creative output and mastery of material—glass, porcelain, metal, wood and plastic. Complementing the exhibition, Apartment Zero displayed at the embassy, Wirkkala’s pieces in current production, from Iittala, Rosenthal, and Venini.