Ultima Thule Centerpiece Bowl Jewelry Professor Oiva Toikka's Kastehelmi

Professor Oiva Toikka's Kastehelmi

and continuing all the way to contemporary design

This remarkable sister and brother live at the very top of Norway—to Lise and Lasse

simplicity and functionality in drinkware

Ultima Thule Centerpiece Bowl Jewelry Professor Oiva Toikka's KastehelmiTapio Wirkkala was the pioneer of modern Finnish industrial art. His internationally renowned glass designs were inspired by the raw beauty of his native Finland. Wirkkalas cottage in remote Lapland was so isolated that Iittala helicoptered supplies in. Determined to recreate an ice covered Finnish island where the sun never sets, Wirkkala spent nearly a thousand hours with the glassblowers at the Iittala Glass Factory, defying the rules of