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Matka Troijaan

Form
08/1997-09/1997 (made), 1992 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Salo (designer)
Salo (maker)
Place of origin
Nuutajärvi (made)

Like a teapot in a shopping trolley. A glass vessel within a metal mesh with metal wheels and a square stopper made of glass and metal. The wheels turn, enabling the object to move.

Object details

Categories
Glass
Metalwork
Object type
Form
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Form
  • Stopper
Titles
  • Matka Troijaan (assigned by artist)
  • Vankkurit (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
glass, steel, copper, free-blown, assembled mesh
Brief description
Chariot from Journey to Troy series, glass, steel, copper, designed by Markku Salo for Nuutajärvi, Finland, designed 1992, made 1997.
Physical description
Like a teapot in a shopping trolley. A glass vessel within a metal mesh with metal wheels and a square stopper made of glass and metal. The wheels turn, enabling the object to move.
Dimensions
    Production typeUnique
    Gallery label
    (11/1997)
    Chariot from the series Journey to Troy
    Glass blown into a metal mesh mould
    Designed and made by Markku Salo, 1997
    Gift of Hackman Designor
    Credit line
    Given by Hackman Designor
    Object history
    Specially made for the Victoria and Albert Museum after a previous example arrived broken. The series of vankkurit (Finnish: 'chariot'), kaksijalka (Finnish: 'bipod') and torni (Finnish: 'tower') forms in various dimensions, colourways and patterning are part of the general series 'Matka Troijiaan' (Finnish: 'Journey to Troy'). The series was designed in 1992 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Nuutajärvi glass works in 1993. This example follows the broken example in form and colouring. Several variants exist on the original theme and all are limited editions.
    Production
    Reason For Production: Exhibition
    Bibliographic references
    • Dawson, Jack. finnish post war glass: [1945 - 1996]. Sunderland, 1996. 118pp., ill. (Exhibition catalogue)
    • Nuutajärvi: 200 Years of Finnish Glass. Tampere, 1993. p.105.
    Other number
    9840 - Glass gallery number
    Collection
    Ceramics Collection
    Accession number
    C.189:1, 2-1997

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    Record createdDecember 30, 1997
    Record URL
    https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7300/matka-troijaan-form-salo/
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