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Showing posts with label finnish designer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finnish designer. Show all posts

The Hippest Hockey Puck Ever - The Aalto Puck.



Since the middle ages ice hockey has been played with round pucks. Until now. Inspired by the free forms of the Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto and a small reminder that not everything has to be as we’re used to, the Nordic Society for Invention & Discovery (NSID) and Iittala collaborated to create the first non-round hockey puck in the history of mankind, the Aalto puck.

A Fly On The Wall That Can Save Your Life. Lento, The Award-Winning Smoke Detector From Jalo.





Lento is an unexpectedly whimsical but safe and effective photoelectric smoke alarm designed by Finnish designer Paola Suhonen for Jalo Helsinki.



Lento will not only enhance the safety of your home, but you will also add a touch of originality. Forget the boring and unattractive smoke alarms on the market – with Lento an essential everyday object such as a smoke alarm will become an original piece of design for decorating your home and keeping it safe. Installing Lento will take only a few seconds thanks to its 3M tape and there will be no need for screws or a power drill.



The whole surface of the smoke alarm acts as a test button, so there are no tiny push buttons, but the whole external casing acts as a press switch for silencing false alarms and testing the performance. Lento has been developed and manufactured according to the requirements and standards for smoke alarms. Lento is lightweight and has a 5 year battery life time.




Available in pink, green, grey, white or black, Lento was awarded the Red Dot Design Award 2011.




Manufacturer: Jalo Helsinki
Design: Paola Suhonen

Accessories: 5 years
Warranty: 5 year battery life time
Size: Length 188 mm, width 184 mm, height 50 mm, weight 200 g
Colors: Green, Pink, White, Grey and Black
Notes: Operational temperature 0-45C, humidity 0-90%

You Can Buy it here

KUPU - Photoelectric Smoke Alarm, Design by Harri Koskinen
If you'd prefer a smoke alarm that is not quite as whimsical, Jalo Helsinki also manufactures the KUPU, another Red Dot Design Winner that is a square photoelectric smoke alarm available in multiple colors:


You can also purchase the KUPU here

Marimekko X Converse - 13 Styles And Many Are On Sale!





Original Marimekko patterns from the 1960s created by the well-known Finnish textile mill are applied to some Converse favorites in this special collection. The signature prints are paired with such classic Converse styles as Jack Purcells and All Star Hi and low tops.



Right now, about half the Marimekko Converse kicks are on sale. Here's a look at the 13 shoes in the collection:













Each pair of the 13 different styles comes with a matching cinch bag made in the Marimekko pattern, like those shown below:




Just Reduced Merchandise at Converse + Free Shipping on orders of $75 or more

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click on the above logo to start shopping.

Add Some Body Hair To Your Wardrobe, Courtesy Of Nutty Tarts.




I have written about beautifully hairy bodies before when I introduced you to several sexy hairy chests and a new book.

Now, Nutty Tarts, a female design duo in Finland, brings us additional body hair in the form of underwear, leggings and a wife-beater tank. The white wardrobe staples with screen-printed chest hair, leg hair and pubic hair are simply hilarious.



They offer three different "hairy" products, all screen printed on white organic cotton (95% organic cotton, 5% lycra).

Hairy slim fit sleeveless undershirt for women and men with screen-printed chest hair. €35.00



Hairy hipster panties with screen-printed pubic hair for women. €25.00



Hairy leggings for women with screen-printed hair on the lower legs. €35.00



Or get the whole Hairy Set!

Hairy Underwear Collection by Nutty Tarts €95.00

The set includes:
* Hairy Panties
* Hairy Undershirt
* Hairy Leggings
* Bad Face Day paper bag or Bad Day paper bag (another one of their clever products)
* a gift box (optional)
If you order the whole set you will automatically get 5€ discount. The gift box is for free.

And now they've added some for babies!


Shop for any of the above items here.

About Nutty Tarts:


Nutty Tarts (in finnish Tärähtäneet ämmät) is a finnish art duo that offers its customers high-quality design products. Nutty Tarts, Mrs Katriina Haikala and Mrs Vilma Metteri, have been working together since year 2007 and their goal have ever since been "to do things like they have never been done before". In this case things include design products, performances and artpieces.

Nutty Tarts work and live in Helsinki, Finland.

WAW
Women At Work Oy Ltd.
Arabiankatu 2
00560 Helsinki
Finland

All Aalto, All the Time:
Finds Inspired By Alvar Aalto


Above: Alvar Aalto's "Savoy Vase"designed in 1936 and is still inspiring products today.

I've always been a fan of Alvar Aalto's classic web furniture and wonderful vases. Since his death, many things have been inspired by the famous "Savoy" vase shape of his design.

And here are just a few.

Just click on any of the items below and you'll be directed to their place of purchase


It's All About Aalto!

See more of my It's All About Aalto! list at ThisNext.

About Alvar Aalto:
Alvar Aalto was born in Kuortane, Finland. He studied architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1916 to 1921. He returned to Jyväskylä, where he opened his first architectural office in 1923. The following year he married architect Aino Marsio. Their honeymoon journey to Italy sealed an intellectual bond with the culture of the Mediterranean region that was to remain important to Aalto for the rest of his life. Aalto moved his office to Turku in 1927, and started collaborating with architect Erik Bryggman. The office moved again in 1933, to Helsinki. The Aaltos designed and built a joint house-office (1935-36) for themselves in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, but later (1954-55) had a purpose-built office built in the same neighbourhood. Aino Aalto died in 1949 and in 1952 he married architect Elissa Mäkiniemi (died 1994). In 1957 they designed and had built a summer cottage, the so-called Experimental House, for themselves in Muuratsalo, where they spent their summers. Alvar Aalto died in May 11, 1976, in Helsinki.


Above: Early portrait of Alvar Aalto

Although sometimes regarded as the first and the most influential architects of Nordic modernism, a closer examination of the historical facts reveals how Aalto (while a pioneer in Finland) closely followed and had personal contacts with other pioneers in Sweden, in particular Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius. But what they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

In Aalto's case this is epitomised by the Viipuri Library (1927-35), which went through a transformation from an originally classical competition entry proposal to the completed high-modernist building. His humanistic approach is in full evidence there: the interior displays natural materials, warm colours, and undulating lines. The Viipuri Library project lasted eight years, and during that same time he also designed the Turun Sanomat Building (1929-30) and Paimio Sanatorium (1929-33): thus the Turun Sanomat Building first heralded Aalto's move towards modernism, and this was then carried forward both in the Paimio Sanatorium and in the on-going design for the library. But though the Turun Sanomat Building and Paimio Sanatorium are comparatively pure modernist works, even they carried the seeds of his questioning of such an approach and a move to a more daring, synthetic attitude.

above: Alvar and his wife, Aino

Aalto was a member of the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne; attending the second congress in Frankfurt in 1929, and the fourth congress in Athens in 1933. It was not until the completion of the Paimio Sanatorium (1929) and Viipuri Library (1935) that he first achieved world attention in architecture. His reputation grew in the USA following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by Frank Lloyd Wright as a "work of genius".
It could be said that Aalto's reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture. The growth of a new tradition (1949), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier. In his analysis of Aalto, Giedion gave primacy to qualities that depart from direct functionality, such as mood, atmosphere, intensity of life and even 'national characteristics', declaring that "Finland is with Aalto wherever he goes".

Aalto's awards included the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects (1957) and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects

For More About Alvar Aalto or Aalto products and design, see the links below:
Wikipedia
Buy Aalto vases and products
The Alvar Aalto Museum
Aalto's Architecture
More info and products from Scandanavian Design
Design Museum info

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