{"title":"HELENA TYNELL","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" class=\"black-text-01\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHELENA TYNELL｜1918–2016｜FINLAND\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelena Tynell was a Finnish designer. She studied design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Helsinki, and while still a student worked part-time as a draughtsperson at Taito. After graduating, she began working at Arabia’s Art Department, but at the same time continued her work at Taito—partly at the urging of Paavo Tynell, whom she would later marry—dividing her time between the two: mornings at Taito and afternoons making ceramic works at Arabia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter leaving Arabia in 1946, she became increasingly interested in glass through her visits to Riihimäen Lasi in connection with her work for Taito, and that same year began her career there as a glass designer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt Riihimäen Lasi, she became one of the company’s leading designers, remaining there until 1976. Her work ranged from finely engraved pieces made in collaboration with Teodor Käppi, one of Finland’s most accomplished engravers, to colorful utilitarian glass and art glass produced through a wide variety of techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 1961 onward, she also worked for the German company Bega-Limburg, where she designed lighting, art glass, and even catalogue graphics, making a major contribution to the company’s design identity until 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer work was widely recognized both in Finland and abroad. In 1967 and 1968, she received the German Die gute Industrieform prize, and in 1983 she was awarded the Finnish State Artist’s Pension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hlty003","title":"\"FOREST\" 6610","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"item-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelena Tynell’s Forest (Metsä) is a work from a series presented in 1966 at Galerie Strindberg in Helsinki, in an exhibition marking her twenty years at Riihimäen Lasi. Cast in layers using an irregularly textured mold, it is a weighty and sculptural work of art glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin the glass are blue, green, and violet tones, along with suspended bubbles, while the surface bears a wrinkled texture created as successive layers of poured glass cooled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece is polished irregularly not only along the edges and on the top and bottom, but also across the sides, so that smooth polished planes mingle with areas that retain the original cast surface. As light is reflected and transmitted differently across these contrasting textures, and together with the varying thickness of the glass, the internal color, and the bubbles, the work reveals shifting depth and shadow depending on the angle from which it is seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigned “HELENA TYNELL RIIHIMÄEN LASI OY -69,” indicating that this example was made in 1969.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn good condition with no noticeable damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"black-text-01\" style=\"margin-top: 48px;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHELENA TYNELL｜1918–2016｜FINLAND\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelena Tynell was a Finnish designer. She studied design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Helsinki, and while still a student worked part-time as a draughtsperson at Taito. 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After graduating, she began working at Arabia’s Art Department, but at the same time continued her work at Taito—partly at the urging of Paavo Tynell, whom she would later marry—dividing her time between the two: mornings at Taito and afternoons making ceramic works at Arabia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter leaving Arabia in 1946, she became increasingly interested in glass through her visits to Riihimäen Lasi in connection with her work for Taito, and that same year began her career there as a glass designer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt Riihimäen Lasi, she became one of the company’s leading designers, remaining there until 1976. 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