Decorative artist and glass designer Göran Hongell was one of the pioneers of the Finnish glass tradition.  Already by the 1930s he had presented some of his most famous work, including the first design of the Aarne set of glasses.  The artist's memory is cherished still with great respect: Hongell's Aarne was selected as the symbolof the iittala glassworks for its one hundredth anniversary in 1981.