Awards and honours
Awards and honours
Prizes and awards:
1946 First Prize, design competition for engraved glass, Iittala Glassworks.
1947 First and Second Prize, banknote design competition arranged by the Bank of Finland.
1948 First and Second Prize, souvenir design competition of the A. Tillander jewellery firm
1951 Lunning Prize, United States
1951 Four prizes in the competition for a postage stamp for the Helsinki Olympics.
1951 Three Grands Prix, the IXth Milan Triennial
1952 ”The Most Beautiful Object of 1951",House Beautiful magazine, United States
1954 Three Grands Prix, the Xth Milan Triennial
1958 First Prize in the invited competition ”Department Store and Life 2000”, Brussels World's Fair
1958 Medal of the Year, S.I A. (Society of Industrial Arts), London
1960 One of four prize-winners in the Industrial Cutlery invited design competition of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, United States
1960 Grand Prix and Gold Medal, the XIIth Milan Triennial
1962 One of four prize-winners in an invited design competition of the Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (BASF), Mannheim
1963 Golden Obelisk, Domus magazine, Milan
1963 Silver Medal, the XIIIth Milan Triennial
1963/66/67/69/73 Gold Medal of the President of Italy, Faenza International Ceramics Competition
1963 Premio Internazionale, International Ceramics Competition, Vicenza, Italy
1968 Honorary Prize, the Finnish Cultural Foundation
1972 Eurostar Prize, Barcelona, for the Finlandia Vodka bottle, container glass series
Distinctions:
1955 Order of the Lion of Finland – Pro Finlandia Medal
1964 Honorary Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society of Arts, London
1971 Honorary doctorate, Royal College of Arts, London
1971 Honorary Member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London,
1972 Honorary title of academician
1975 Honorary Member, Diseñadores Industriales, Instituto Politechnico Nacional, Mexico City
1980 Medal for Creative Work, Teosto organization
1980 The Prince Eugen Medal, Stockholm
1981 Honorary member, Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo
1982 Academico di Honor, Academia Mexicana de Diseño, Mexico
1983 Silver Medal, Académie de l’Architecture, France