Category: Finnish Designers

Best known for his glassware, Timo Sarpaneva crafted items that were sleek, modern and functional. He designed many items for Finnish Company iittala, including the Festivo candleholders, the Suomi dinnerware

A graduate of the Lahti Institute of Design, Mika Piirainen has designed for Marimekko since 1994. Over the years, his versatile collections have included clothing for women, men and children

Designer Harri Koskinen has risen rapidly in his international career as a designer. He has designed for the likes of Marimekko and iittala, employing his wide ranging talent in a

Klaus Haapaniemi, known for his illustrations, advertising art and clothing fabric prints, designed the Jääkarhu (polar bear) pattern for Marimekko in 2001. After an absence of a few years, the

Following in her mother’s footsteps, Kristina Isola is an accomplished textile designer in her own right. She made her first sketches for fabrics at the age of sixteen as an

Tapio Wirkkala is an outstanding iittala designer whose art glass and glassware sets virtually created the look and content of iittala design. Wirkkala’s oeuvre is vast, and between the 1940s

Professor Oiva Toikka is one of the greatest names in Finnish glass. His imaginative, rich and bold glass art deviates from the streamlined aesthetic of Nordic design. He has worked

Born in 1982, award-winning Finnish designer Maija Louekari received her Master’s in design and B.A. in interior decoration from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. The aspiring artist