Aalto Savoy

I recently bought an Aalto Savoy vase. It is not for me, but meant as a present.

I had seen the Aalto Savoy vase before, and found it interesting and curious. And thought who would buy something like that. Having now looked into the product history and going through the choice and purchase decision, I have changed my mind. The Alto Savoy is an exceptional piece of design. It was created by the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto. The first designs were created by blowing glass constrained by a set of parallel sticks on the ground. If you want to know the story, it can be found here.

According to this source:

"It was a part of a series of designs for vases and dishes with which Alvar Aalto entered, and won, the 1936 competition organized by Finland's prominent glassworks, Karhula and Iittala. The prime aim of the competition was to acquire designs suitable for showing at the Paris World's Fair next year. Aalto delivered a sequence of sketchy, and in several cases almost ostensibly casual, drawings, some of them reminiscent of cubist still-life collages, and gave the entry a Swedish code name of Eskimoerindens Skinnbuxa, i.e. Eskimo-Woman's Leather Pants"

The vase encompasses so perfectly the organic beauty of silent flora, perhaps Scandinavian landscapes and ghosts, modern art and simple functionality.

We recently got one. Not the Savoy exactly, but the slimmer, taller version. Blue.