Exceptional Commissioned Paavo Tynell Ceiling Lamp In Brass & Glass, Taito 1950s

An exceptionally elegant Mid-Century Modern Paavo Tynell ceiling lamp commissioned and designed for the MTK (Central Union of Agricultural and Forestry Producers) seminar building in the city of Espoo at `Northern Lights Street 9`, or `Revontulentis 9, 02100 Espoo) . It was of course manufactured by Taito between 1950-1953. Paavo Tynell and Ilmari Tapiovaara designed the lightings and furniture for this building. This building had one of the most documented light interiors by Paavo Tynell from 1951-52. This lamp is yet another perfect example of what a genious designer Paavo Tynell was. Simple yet very elegant with absolutely no unnecessary details, only the essentials.

This is now the last one of 3 of this model lamps that were made for this building. Two of them have already been sold, so this is the last one.
The lamp is stamped. The archive pictures : credit of the Finnish Heritage Agency (Museo Virasto).

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Paavo Tynell (1890–1973) was a Finnish designer who is well renowned around the world for his incredible lighting fixtures and lamps. Tynell is known as the man who “illuminated Finland” and his works can be found in numerous public offices and buildings such as the Finnish Parliament House and the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York.

Tynell started as a sheet metal worker´s apprentice at G.W.Sohlbergs workshop in 1906. After that he moved to Taidetakomo Koru Oy in 1912, which was a metal workshop specializing in electric light fixtures. Then Paavo studied at the Central School of Applied Arts in Helsinki and after that he taught in it too. Paavo then founded Taito Oy in 1918 with a number of colleagues. Taito produced a number of other items other than just light fixtures in the early years, however the main focus became lamps after Finland adopted the use of electricity. By the 1930s Finnish households started buying light fixtures as the use of electricity became more common. In the 1920s Taito`s main sales were still mostly public commissions, for example the Paimio Sanatorium which was designed by Alvar aalto.

After WW2 and the quite challenging shortage years in Finland, Tynell finally had his major breakthrough. His style became quite distinctive and was mainly aimed at the U.S. markets. He sold both catalogue lamps as well as commissioned works through Finland House in N.Y. Although his late 1940s-1950s style was widely criticized at first in Finland, he stuck to it, and luckily so. It wasn´t long before his lamp fixtures became Finland House´s best selling product. Nowadays Tynells high end lamps fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars worldwide, and deservingly so. His commisioned lamps number in the thousands, and unfortunately not all documents or archive materials are intact