Aalto vase. Bizarrely enough, under the project title "Lederhose einer Eskimofrau", these now legendary organic designs for bowls and vases made of glass were created over 70 years ago in the studio of architect Alvar Aalto. As "Savoy" vases they promptly won first prize in a design competition organized by the factory "Karhula-iittala". Its purpose was to select those pieces that took part in the 1937 Paris World Exhibition to represent Finland. Today you can hardly imagine the waves the "Savoy" vase once struck. When iittala presented the vases at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, their mysterious form stood in complete contrast to the recognized, machine-oriented thinking of the time. Every Aalto vase is still mouth blown at iittala today. iittala can rely on the competence and expert knowledge of its professionals, who conscientiously take care of the individual shape of each flower vase: It goes through no less than seven hands before the vase has earned the name of its designer Alvar Aalto. What inspired the creator to create the wave-like shape of his vase objects at the time remains unfathomable - but is perfectly in line with Alvar Aalto's general statement that "form is a mystery". The different prices of the vases are not only caused by the different widths and heights of the vase objects, but also by the use of special materials/colour pigments to maintain transparency.