Item No. lah703.

Arabia bun plate, Olivia. Design, Raija Uosikkinen.

Year, 1964-71.

Diameter 17 cm, weight 185 g.

Raija Uosikkinen (b. 1923 in Hollola, d. 2004 in Helsinki) studied at the Central School of Art and Design for porcelain painter in 1944 - 1947. She then worked as a decorator and designer for Arabia in 1947 - 1986.

Raija Uosikkinen and Esteri Tomula have had an important role as decorative designers for renewal of Arabia's decorative production in the late 1940's and 1950's. Uosikkinen designed many decoratives for Kaj Franck's industrial manufactured products. Decoratives for B-Model such as Polaris and Linnea were popular, as well as playful Emilia decorations.

Last references for islam Ali copper ornaments from Arabia are designed by Uosikkinen. Arabia began to  to produce a large scale of collector's items in the 1970's and Raija Uosikkinen designed two key  dishware collector sets: Kalevala-year plates since 1976 and Christmas plate series since 1978.

She participated in numerous domestic and foreign exhibitions and was working alongside his work as a teacher as well as free institute Toimela and University of Art and Design.