TAIDETEOLLINEN OPPILAITOS
KONSTINDUSTRIELLA LÄROVERKET: ATENEUM 1950 - 1951
Bruno Tuukkanen and Tapio Wirkkala
Bruno Tuukkanen [university rector] and Tapio Wirkkala [artistic director]: TAIDETEOLLINEN OPPILAITOS [KONSTINDUSTRIELLA LÄROVERKET: ATENEUM 1950 - 1951]. Helsinki: Frenckellska Tryckeri Aktieboalget, 1952. First edition. Text in Finnish and Swedish. A good or better soft cover book with thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear including age-toning and slight rubbing. A hole has been pierced through the books upper left-hand side. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8 x 9 soft cover book with 32 pages and 25 black-and-white illustrations and a small section of advertisements. A selection of industrial design work from Tadeteollinen Oppilaitos including Graphic Design, Illustration, Textiles, Ceramics, Furniture and Jewelry. None of the work seems to be credited.
"In 1875 Veisokoulu, the handicraft school established in 1870, was taken over by the Finnish Society of Crafts and Design. A decade later, as it became the national central school of applied art, it was named Tadeteollisuuskeskuskoulu. The annual reports of Tadeteollisuuskeskuskoulu throughout the first decades of the twentieth century state that one of the school’s most important aims was to meet the challenges of the developing industries. In 1949 the school became an institute for applied art and was called Tadeteollinen Oppilaitos." [Judy Attfield, "Utility Reassessed: The Role of Ethics in the Practice of Design," Manchester University Press, 1999]