This chandelier is monumental in size and has the details to match. Comissioned for the old Keski-Lahti "Wood Church", Tynell designed this lamp with the old baroque glamour and style in mind to match the classical church interior. It is fully made of brass and consisting of a central ball and body with a staggering twenty arms in two levels holding candle-like lights topped with brass flowers that also reflect the light downwards. The size and weight of the chandelier is quite considerable and from the measurements, one can imagine this in a large room with a high ceiling, a foyer or a hotel lobby. The lamp requires the space to match its size and although timeless in style, the lamp has the genious Tynell touches that make it suitable for modern and classical interiors alike.
This lamp is stamped Taito.
Provenance.- This chandelier came from the Keski-Lahti wood church, please refer to pictures.
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 Tynell´s high end lamps fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars worldwide, and deservingly so. His commisioned lamps number in the thousands, but unfortunately not all documents or archive materials are intact.
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