Pertti Metsälampi

GLASS DESIGNER

Aspiration for simplicity is the guiding power of my work. Making things uncluttered takes a process of refining, all that is left is essential. Clean lines are beautiful and last a lifetime.

The years I worked with academician Tapio Wirkkala had a great impact on my work methods and production. It was in his design office where lines and shapes were approached with the precision of a sculptor—the virtue being bare essentiality.

Glass—melted sand, hot ice—can simultaneously be clear or translucent, coloured, colourless, light or heavy. In particular, I am fascinated by the three-dimensionality of thick glass with its depth creating an impression of a small vastness. The techniques are old, still one can always find something new. Glass is transformed into sculptures in the hands of the master glassblower.