LONGJUMP AT JOLLAS
FinnishDesignShop organized a little sports event called Finnish Design Olympics at the yard of Jollaskoti, a house harnessed for young designers during the Helsinki Design Week. The eight designers who spent their week at Jollas doing a design task competed in long jump on a September evening. Jani Leinonen, Paola Suhonen, Klaus Aalto, Teemu Suviala, Antti Hinkula, Marjukka Mäkelä, Timo Salli and Pieta-Linda Auttila did all pretty well.
MAFOOMBEY IS A SPACE MADE OF CORRUGATED CARDBOARD
Mafoombey, designed by Martti Kalliala and Esa Ruskeepää, took first place in the Habitare Fair design competition held in Helsinki in September for the best space for listening to music. The two students of Helsinki Faculty of Architecture, with the assistance of Martin Lucasczyk, realized Mafoombey, the ergonomically and acoustically optimum, as well as beautiful space, made of corrugated cardboard by cutting and piling.
'Stora Enso / Timo Wright'.
“The initial concept for the design evolved from an ambition to create a strong spatial intensity within the volume of the dimensions given for the competition (2,5 x 2,5 x 2,5 m)”, tell the designers. “It soon developed into an idea of an intuitive freeform space cut into a rectangular stack of material.”
Kalliala and Ruskeepää decided to use corrugated cardboard as their material because of its low cost and strong aesthetic appeal. The interior contours of the cube were carried out mainly by means of computer design. When a pleasing form was found, the 3D model was sliced into horizontal layers in order to produce the cutting files for the computer-controlled Kongsberg cardboard cutter.
Each of the 360 layers of Mafoombey consists of two pieces of cardboard resulting in almost a ton in weight when assembled. Cardboard columns run through each corner of the cardboard cube stiffening the structure. No glue is used. Speakers, stereos and lamps are all integrated within the stack, allowing music and light to seep in through the cardboard structure.
'Stora Enso / Timo Wright'.
The noisy masterpiece for the ideal music experience can be visited in the entrance hall of Stora Enso headquarters located near Helsinki market place.
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ALAIN DELON MINIATURE BARBEQUE
Klaus Aalto has designed a steel barbeque perfect to take along for excursions in the forest, fishing trips or just to have a cook-out. ”I have used it not only for grilling but also for making coffee in an espresso pan”, says Aalto. ”The barbeque always travels with me at the back of my car.”
The urban miniature barbeque has got its name after the French actor Alain Delon. ”The name of Alain Delon is nice to pronounce in Finnish – Aki Kaurismäki wouldn’t have sounded as nice”, the designer tells about the story behind the name. ”The name also brings a nice vision to one’s mind of Delon dressed in a suit, having a picnic at a park with a charming lady in France in the 60’s.”
If Aalto was to give a person’s name for another one of his products, he would give the honour to Johan Olin of Anteeksi collective. ”He is a fun person and there’s a pun in the name”, says Aalto and connects Olin’s name to a Finnish saying ’johan oli’ that means something like ’that was something’.
Alain Delon barbeque grill will be soon available from FinnishDesignShop.com.
KOTATSU AND THE BEST OF MARIMEKKO
Piiroinen, Marimekko and Anteeksi collective co-organized a meeting point for the Habitare fair. The adventurous hot spot located in the area of the so-called Design block was given the name Ihmemaa (Wonderland). It was one of the most interesting and fun things at Habitare in general with its forest of striped cotton trees, two chairs dressed in Marimekko’s dotted shirts and pillows attached to steel tube legs. All of the unique products were made under the mutual name of Kentauri (Centaur). The first two of the previously mentioned products and the most fascinating creation of all, the hybrid of a blanket and a table called Kotatsu, are designed by Aamu Song.
The info attached to Kotatsu reads: “A table is a place for being together. A blanket is for keeping warm. Kotatsu is for keeping warm together.” The fabric used to make the blanket is named The Best of Marimekko. It is made out of only those specific bits of Marimekko’s fabrics that include the name of the designer and the year of the design.
OCTO LAMP
Seppo Koho who made it big some years ago with his first birch lamp put on display a new lamp called Octo during the Design Week. Like its predecessor Octo is also made out of bended birch and is also available with black or white lamination on top. The lamps about half a meter in diameter are manufactured by Secto Design.
Octo lamp will be soon available from FinnishDesignShop.com.
At the opening party.
Text: Jenna Sutela
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