'Lollipop Isle' was a favourite theme of the Finnish designer Oiva Toikka. This piece, chosen from an exhibition of Finnish arts and crafts held in London in 1969, seems to be one of the earliest examples. Toikka began his career at the Arabia ceramics factory and became art director at the Nuutajärvi glassworks in 1963. By the early 1970s Toikka was designing glass forms clearly related to this piece, but they were floor-standing and had a freer and more exuberant style.
