Iittala Kastehelmi
The Kastehelmi range of glassware (Kastehelmi translated from Finnish is “dew pearl”) is one of
the most well know glassware from Iittala in Finland.
The decoration of these glassware looks
like there would be small, different sized...
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Iittala Kastehelmi
The Kastehelmi range of glassware (Kastehelmi translated from Finnish is “dew pearl”) is one of
the most well know glassware from Iittala in Finland.
The decoration of these glassware looks
like there would be small, different sized pearls rhythmically receding from the center.
The designer of Kastehelmi is Oiva Toikka, very well know Finnish glass artist.
The actual story
of the design process is more practical than the fragile name and outlook gives to understand.
The idea of using droplets of glass as decoration came to Toikka from the technical challenge: he
was thinking of the ways of covering the joint marks left on the surface of pressed glass pieces
by the production process.
For the designer’s sake it must be said, that the manufacturing
method would have needed only one pearl, but it was by aesthetic reasons the designer added
full load of pearls to the mold.
This design was one of the first works Oiva Toikka did for the famous Nuutajärvi glass factor
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