Word: riihimaki
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...MOMA show includes some of the glassware designed by Aalto and his first wife Aino. The most atypical piece, the austere "Flower of Riihimaki," is the most beautiful. More often when working in glass, Aalto let his fondness for nature run riot. Vases were a specialty. The free-form circumferences, blobby and bulbous like doodles by Arp or Mird, suggest lakes or amoebas or arboreal cross sections. Even the casting process | was ripped from nature. On display at the MOMA show is a wooden mold used to make Aalto's 1936 Savoy vase: the length of dugout tree trunk...
...give the Finns a taste of what is in store for them-possibly in hope of cracking their morale-the Russian air force last week made a clean sweep of the south of Finland, sparing only Helsinki, killed and wounded hundreds of civilians in Hamina, Kotka, Hanko, Turku, Lahti, Riihimaki, Kouvola, Tampere, Porvoo, Karjaa...
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