Mid-Century Riihimaki or Riihimaen Lasi Oy Finland Turquoise Blown Glass Vase

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Beautiful Riihimaki vase in excellent condition. I have not been able to find another example on-line of a Riihimaki vase … Read more Beautiful Riihimaki vase in excellent condition. I have not been able to find another example on-line of a Riihimaki vase with this shape in any color. The company (as shown on the label) that imported the vase operated from the 1960s into the 1980s, making the vase at least 40-50 years old.

Riihimaki glassworks was founded in 1910, in the town of Riihimaki, Finland, by M. A. Kolehmainen and his son A. P. Kolehmainen. Riihimaki became the largest glass factory in Finland after buying the Kaukalahti glassworks in 1927. Riihimaki was renamed Riihimaen Lasi Oy in 1937, and Aimo Okkolin began designing for Riihimaki in the same year. Helena Tynell joined Riihimaki in 1949, followed by Nanny Still in 1949, and Tamara Aladin in 1959. Together these four were chief designers for Riihimaki over the next 20 years. In 1968 Erkkitapio Siiroinen began designing for Riihimaki. Riihimaki was bought by Ahlstrom in 1985, and merged with Karhula in 1988 under the name Ahlstrom Riihimaen Lasi Oy. In 1990 the Riihimaki factory was closed. See less