Iittala’s Annual Cube 2026 features a warm Seville orange core captured within clear glass, its centre adorned with a captivating organic pattern created using Oiva Toikka’s famous paperweight technique. Each Annual Cube is hand-made, ensuring that every piece is entirely individual – a unique work of Finnish glass art.
Designed by professor Oiva Toikka, Iittala’s annual glass cubes have been in production since 1977. At the Iittala glassworks, master glassblowers craft each one individually using the demanding paperweight technique in which the colours and decorations are added to the cube layer by layer, ending with clear glass. When the molten glass has set and cooled down, the cube is ground and polished to reveal unique and detailed microscopic worlds captured inside. Each annual cube is made in a limited edition of 2000 numbered pieces, and its design and colours match the annual bird and egg of the same year.
