Product Description

iittala's AA004950 Glass Aalto Vase in Petrol Blue is a work of art. Designed by Alvar Aalto in 1937 for the World's Fair, this vase exemplifies Finnish Glass Art. Now available in Petrol Blue, this classic vase as been recolored for today's most discriminting customer. This small glass vase stands 3-3/4-inches tall, making it a perfect vase for a small bouquet of flowers, seaglass, shells or even candy. This vase can also stand alone as a small work of art. Aalto created organic, flexable forms that lends each vase towards the "celebration of light". His wavy, free form design has been translated into architecture, armchairs, screens and even tea trolleys. Each vase is made in Finland and delivered to you to be treasured and enjoyed every day. Only from iittala.

Product Details

• Brand: iittala
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Customer Reviews

bargain with beauty
Excellent price for this discontinued color. The petrol blue color, which was used for the 100th anniversary, is handsome. Pics don't do this color justice. Very pleased with item and with Amazons professional communications, packaging, and delivery.

Kind of Blue
What a bargain! If you had an original Alvar Aalto vase, you'd be a millionaire, but this one is reasonably priced from Finland, and now that price is slashed to rock bottom.

What you could do with this wonderful tribute to eccentric Finn design, as you ponder how the world's greatest visionaries always need to have a vase nearby. Trace with your fingers the many unusual surfaces of this vase and you will see, though it seems small, that the multifold shape of the glass actually means that it uses much more glass per cubic foot than even a very large US made vase, with our straight modernist up and down lines. Now what would cause an architect designer like Aalto to go so wiggly? Some have laid the credit to the glacier-based farmland of his native country. For example, stand up, stand on a chair, and look down at this vase from a bird's eye view, you will see that from above it resembles roughly an air view of the shape of Finland.

Others have ascribed Aalto's quirkiness to the ups and downs of his emotional and spiritual life while here on earth. As his soul bubbled over, so did his glass blowing; compare to our contemporary Dale Chihuly, who has acknowledged this classic vase design in many recent commissions. To design in glass properly, you have to be very, very controlled, with an iron rod instead of a spine, and a mouth intuitively ripe for blowing, and yet you must be a romantic too. Anyone with a "petrol blue" vase at home will find Aalto's signature on the bottom (in replica on Amazon of course) and those who know a thing or two about graphology will know the man, from the way his hand trembled over the double A that began his name and which plunged him to the front of 20th century designers if you ranked them in alphabetical order. The conflict, you see, was always there, like a birthmark on his shoulder.