Coffee pot

Designed by Tapio Wirkkala, manufactured by Kultakeskus Oy, Hämeenlinna, 1959. Height 19,5 cm.

Tapio Wirkkala, along with Bertel Jung, is one of the most significant designers who have influenced the Finnish design of silver objects since the 1950s. Wirkkala designed out of silver both utility items and works of art, which goldsmiths created based on Wirkkala’s drafts. His works highlight timelessness, but the expression of form is compatible with other Finnish design objects of the era. This coffee pot, as well, is timeless in its extremely simplified and unpretentious form, but the wooden handle can be seen as a continuum of the wooden handles of the coffee pots at the end of the 18th century.

Source:

Fagerström 2000, s. 180–183.