 |
|
| [iittala, Marimekko] |
Klaus Haapaniemi (b. 1970) has had plenty of coverage recently in the Finnish as well as foreign media. His CV of design work is impressive: garment prints for Diesel, Levis, Marimekko, Dolce & Gabbana, Cacharel and Bela’s Dead, a new brand. He has also worked as Creative Director of the Italian fashion house Bantam, published a book entitled ‘Giants’ together with the Finnish writer Rosa Liksom, produced illustrations for the Observer newspaper, shown his work in exhibitions – and done a few other things in between. The international WGSN trend analysis service has dubbed him as one of the mo[... mehr]
|
|
| [Le Klint] |
UnderCover by Le Klint brought to light
Imagine a transparent lamp shade that can be dressed in the latest colours and fashionable patterns using an inner shade.
This gives you an idea of the lamp concept by the name of UnderCover that Philip Bro Ludvigsen has developed for LE KLINT. A concept in which one of the central code words, UNLIMITED, denotes flexibility and the opportunity
for the customer to put together a very individual lamp.
“Both Philip Bro Ludvigsen and LE KLINT have taken a new direction with
UnderCover. Being able to put up to four inner shades in the lamp at the same [... mehr]
|
|
| [iittala, Marset, Arabia, Marimekko, Schmidinger Möbelbau] |
Harri Koskinen. Born in Karstula, Finland, in 1970. His furniture and versatile design objects have aroused great international interest. Harri Koskinen strives to find solutions that are innovative for both the consumer and producer. He works with companies like Artek, Danese, Finlandia Vodka Worldwide, Issey Miyake, Montina, Muji, Genelec, O luce, Panasonic, Seiko Instruments, Venini and Woodnotes. Along the years, he has won several awards. The most significant of them was Compasso d’Oro Award in 2004.
|
|
| [iittala, Arabia, Marimekko] |
Born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1943. Heikki Orvola is one of the driving forces within Finnish design. He works in glass, ceramics, cast iron and textiles for iittala, Arabia and Marimekko. Orvola has worked for the industrial art business, but he has also worked in a variety of different materials as a form of pure, artistic expression. During his career as a designer, Heikki Orvola has received awards and prizes, including the Kaj Franck prize in 1998 – perhaps Finland’s most important design prize. For iittala he designd Kivi and Aika.
|
|
 |