KAJ FRANCK NUUTAJARVI SATIJO VASE FINLAND ART GLASS
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KAJ FRANCK NUUTAJARVI SATIJO VASE EXCELLENT CONDITIONNO CHIPS OR CRACKSMEASURES 4 1/2"X4"BLUE TO CLEARFinland's Kaj Franck (1911-1989) made his imprint upon the mid-century design movement with his work in glass and ceramics, and with his innovative changes enacted as Head of Design Planning for Arabia and the Nuutajärvi glassworks. Referred to as "the conscience of Finnish design," Franck was a textile designer, exhibition planner, professor and outspoken theorist on the socio-aesthetics of functional objects. He also dabbled in the illustration of fairy tales, although he never broke into the field in the way he wanted. In the late 1930's, after graduating from the Central School of Applied Arts, Franck went to work at a retail store that sold fabrics, curtains and carpets. While t he began designing a few of his own pieces of furniture, some of the only ones he ever made, which were shown in the Finnish design exhibit at the 1937 Paris World Fair. In 1938 he was put in charge of managing a small arm of the Yhdistyneet Villatehtaat Oy, a major textile company in Finland, which would experiment with making hand-printed fabrics. He was not t long, however, moving on in 1940 to work briefly at Artek w he designed two of their popular fabric patterns, Putkinotko and Lemon. Franck began working at Arabia in 1945, w he was put in a
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