Former professional windsurfer, Janne Rauhansuu, searching for a new direction after a 15-year-long career, strikes business gold with a seemingly simple idea. Janne was staying in Switzerland for a ski
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H & M and Marimekko Spring 2008 Collection – Here! – Finnish Design
Well, everyone has been waiting…here is a peek at the H&M Marimekko Spring 2008 Collection from New York Magazine. Available in stores soon. What do you think? More information available
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The New Edge in Modern Finnish Design
Many people credit the Finns for providing the world with eclectically gorgeous architecture that still remains popular to this day. However, architecture in Finland has dramatically changed since the days
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Sanna Annukka
Born in Brighton, England in 1983, Sanna Annukka is a half English, half Finnish designer and printmaker whose work is strongly inspired by her natural surroundings. Spending much of her
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Kristina Isola
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
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Aino Aalto
Aino Aalto is a Finnish architect and designer best known for her glassware. Like her husband, Alvar Aalto, she studied architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. After marrying Alvar
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Solving the Coated Cotton Conundrum; 25 Uses for Marimekko PVC Fabric
A while back, I picked up some gorgeous Marimekko PVC Fabric not knowing what I’d do with it. Months later, it’s still sitting in my closet, untouched. I currently have
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Tapio Wirkkala
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
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Oiva Toikka
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
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Maija Louekari
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
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