This is a masterpiece Valm made in mid-century by Finland's leading tableware manufacturer ARABIA. The flowers on the surface are beautiful and elegant, and the saucer is also decorated with flowers. The red flowers are called daisies, the blue flowers are called bellweed, and the white flowers are called marguerite.
Until the early 1970s, tableware manufactured by ARABIA was stamped with the year and month of manufacture. This saucer is stamped with the numbers 2-67 (February 1967) and 5-69 (May 1969) on the back, indicating that it is a work from the so-called mid-century golden age. The form design was by Ulla Procope, known for Valencia and Ruska, and the pattern designer in charge of the decoration was Estel Tomura, known for Crocus and Botanica. It is a prototype model for the two's joint work Flora, which was announced later.
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Manufacturer: ARABIA / Arabia form design: Ulla Procope / Ulla Procope pattern design: Esteri Tomula / Esteri Tomula Series name: Valum / Valum Production date: 1965-1970 Country of production: Finland Condition: ★★★★☆ ( 4: Good condition)
There are black spots caused by the manufacturing process on the inside of the cup and on the back of the saucer. There are traces of cutlery on the center edge of the saucer, but it is in good condition overall.
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Ulla Procope
Ulla Procope (1921-1968)
Born in Helsinki. In 1948 , he graduated from the Faculty of Art and Design at Aalto University in Helsinki and joined Arabia Company. After that, he was in charge of design in the production department for 20 years, creating the Ruska series in 1960 and the Valencia series in 1961 . Ruska became the longest-running and most sold flagship product of Arabia's products, and the form of Ruska was called the S model , which became the prototype model for subsequent ARABIA tableware. Valencia is the last hand-painted ARABIA product. After suffering from cancer and retiring from active duty, Procope moved to Spain's Canary Islands, where he died at the age of 47 .
Esteri Tomula
Esteri Tomura (1920-1998)
Born in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Her father, who was a university professor, bought a villa in the countryside called Urjalan in northwest Helsinki, and her childhood was spent every summer at the villa with her family, which was rich in nature, which deepened her knowledge of nature. be done. Esteri Tomura had a congenital condition called dwarfism, and initially majored in ceramics at Aalto University of the Arts in Helsinki, but due to physical reasons, she was unable to work with clay satisfactorily. Therefore, he gave up on the career of ceramics and sought his own expertise in design.
After joining ARABIA , he honed his skills as a pattern designer with Laiya Uosikkinen, who became his lifelong friend. While Uosikkinen preferred abstract and geometric patterns, Tomura seeks the origin of his designs in the flowers and flowers of Finland, which was the original landscape of his childhood. Tomura, who created masterpieces despite his physical handicaps, has similarities with Birger Kaipiainen, who designed the timeless masterpiece Paratissi despite suffering from polio.