Ilmari Tapiovaara
1997
Ilmari Tapiovaara
Biographies
Korvenmaa, Pekka
Pekka Korvenmaa, is doctor of Art History and chair, vice-dean and professor at the Aalto University School of Art and Design of the university of Helsinki. He has led various research projects and teams and supervised doctoral studies in Finland and other parts of the world. Since 1981 he has published profusely onthe history of Finnish architecture and design. He has organised conferences in countries all over the world, including: Iceland, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Chile. He has also chaired the Board of Directors of the Finnish Design Museum.
Ilmari Tapiovaara (1914-1999) was a pioneer in the new design trade. Having a more pragmatic attitude than his predecessors, and vitally and culturally rooted to his country, he laid the foundations for the development of incipient industrial design through his objects and writings, thus bridging the radicalism of early European rationalism and the realism of post-war objective needs.
Tapiovaara’s work contains crucial elements that arise out of a meticulous, laborious, precise investigation into the quest for perfection, the worship of beauty and the poetics of form. This monographic study includes an extensive file of designs, drawings and interior design works by this creator of international scope, placing his work in the contemporary context of Finnish design and industry.
ISBN: 84-85424-20-X
pekka-korvenmaa – 1997
Spanish / English
Hardcover, 28.6 x 24 cm / 11.154″ x 9.36″
240 pp
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