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Colourful Maribowls have been in production since 60s. Still, it was only after the founder of Marimekko, Armi Ratia, used them in her famous garden parties at Bökärs, they've become appreciated gifts and collector’s items. Maribowl remains popular from year to year. Suitable both for serving and as an decorational object, the Maribowl comes in an array of beautiful glass colours. Each colour bowl is priced differently because of the colour used in their production.
Armi Ratia (1912–1979) was the founder of the Finnish textile and clothing company Marimekko Oy. From a modest start in 1951, the brand was on the world map by the 1960s, and remains the most well known Scandinavian design brand to this day. Ratia was not the designer of the Mariskooli (Mari bowl); its shape was a common design across the many glassworks of early 20th century Europe. But it was at a visit to iittala glassworks in the early 1960s that Ratia realised that its romantic shape was reminiscent of Finnish Karelian design, and could be updated to fit her colourful vision of Marimekko. Ratia presented iittala with the then current Marimekko colour palette and brought in not only textile samples but fruits and flowers to match. iittala's unique ability to create coloured glass resulted in a renewal for the bowl. To this day, the Maribowl is still stamped with the Marimekko logotype.
The order of colours in the dropdown match the order of the colours in the photographs.
PRICES (inc VAT)
£19 - CLEAR, APPLE GREEN, WATER GREEN, TURQUOISE BLUE, SAND, GREY, GREEN, LIGHT BLUE
£29 - MATT FROSTED
£39 - RED GARNET, BLACK, SWEET PINK, LIGHT LILAC, BROWN
£69 - RED
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