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Column: Home envy
“It’s really difficult to internalize that what we see in the endless stream of images on our screens is not something we all should strive to achieve,” says Design Stories columnist Hanna-Katariina Mononen and admits to also having felt home envy herself.
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Antti and Vuokko Nurmesniemi’s life, work and leisure come together in the Design Museum’s fascinating exhibition in Helsinki
The Antti + Vuokko Nurmesniemi is the first exhibition to focus on the Finnish designer couple’s life together and both of their careers from the 1950s up to the 21st century.
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Design Museum’s new exhibition shows the world from a designer’s viewpoint
The main exhibition of Helsinki’s Design Museum for summer 2020, called Travel as a Tool, offers a glimpse into the world of travel from a designer’s perspective, presenting trips and journeys taken by designers and architects from the 1940s until the present day. The exhibition also considers the reasons the designers might have had for traveling as well as the role it has played in their work.
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Design Museum's new exhibition, Secret Universe, explores the origin of objects
Are traditional handicraft methods becoming extinct? Why are most of the items we use made far away rather than closer to us? This spring's main exhibition at the Design Museum in Helsinki is Secret Universe by designer duo COMPANY, i.e. Aamu Song and Johan Olin.
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