Tapio Wirkkala's wafer-thin laminated wood bowls and fluid, flaring glass, and the objects of art and manufacture of Timo Sarpaneva, Kaj Franck and other Finnish architects and artisans prove once again that the intrinsic quality of materials reduced to their most basic, sensuous essence, shaped by the creative imagination of an artist, beats all the kitsch in the world.

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When pressurized water is fed over such an intersection, the pressure pushes down the thin layer of rubber, separating it from the fluid below, and it clamps shut the fluid channel below, like stepping on a hose.

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