Artek Pauper Coin Collector

Helping you to turn your pennies into pounds, this 'Pauper' piggy bank is a humble piece of homeware that has been designed by Helsinki-based studio COMPANY for Artek's celebratory 'FIN/JPN Friendship' collection. Honouring the 100-year anniversary of the two nation's partnership, the ceramic series chronicles six seasonal rituals belonging to the Finnish calendar, imagining the gifts that the Finnish delegation would have brought to Japan in 1919 to inaugurate diplomatic relations. This coin collector is inspired by the old Finnish tradition of placing a wooden statue of a pauper outside a church to collect money for the poor. Ceramic Construction Made in Portugal