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MID CENTURY MODERN ARABIA FINLAND BIRGER KAIPIAINEN PARATIISI SERVING BOX W/ LID
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MID CENTURY MODERN ARABIA FINLAND BIRGER KAIPIAINEN PARATIISI OVAL SERVING BOX W/ LIDIT MEASURES ABOUT 5 1/8" TALL AND 4 1/8" BY 4 1/2" OVAL
OLD MARK ON BOTTOM WAS IN PRODUCTION FROM 1964 TO 1971
"Birger Johannes Kaipiainen
(1 July 1915 – 18 July 1988) was a Finnish-swedish ceramist and designer. He is one of the most successful and well-known ceramic artists in
Finland
.
[1]
Kaipiainen graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts (later known as the
Aalto School of Arts
of
Helsinki
. After that he went to work for Finnish ceramics company
Arabia
in 1937, and later in 1954 for their Swedish sister company
Rörstrand
. Kaipiainen worked as a designer for Arabia over fifty years.
[2]
As a child he was Kaipiainen suffered from
Polio
and was consequently unable to use a pottery wheel. It was said that his illness heightened his artistic sensitivity. .
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