From the colorful prints of Marimekko to Ittala glassware and the functional Artek furniture, Finland is not short of leading names in the world of design. The Nordic nation is a major destination for ...

“I’d prefer to face indoors,” I said to my friends Christopher and Dirk, who had taken me out for dinner on my first night in Finland’s capital last October. We were about to be seated at Lasipalatsi, ...

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Finland and design have long been linked. In the 1930s, designer Alvar Aalto's sleek "Paimio Chair" of bent plywood and birch was one of the pieces that raised furniture to the level of sculpture (a ...

The current home of Helsinki’s Design Museum, a former school building designed by Gustaf Nyström in 1894. (Ralf Roletschek/Wikimedia Commons) On the arts and culture front, Finland’s latest ...

A competition to design Finland’s new Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki searched far and wide, receiving 624 proposals that were whittled down to a shortlist of five. Throughout the ...

With a third of its mass sitting above the cold confines of the Arctic Circle and a population of only five million, Finland would seem an unlikely wellspring of world-renowned product design. Yet ...

The Finnish are well known for their minimalist, no-frills approach to life, which is reflected in their ever-present attention to design in architecture, fashion, furniture, transportation, and so on ...

Design has transformed the economy of Finland with companies such as Nokia becoming leaders in producing innovative new products keenly sought by people throughout the world. Now that experience is to ...

Incorporating visually both Finnish and Arabic features, the Finland Pavilion is a meeting space, a fusion of cultures, a sort of Finnish Majilis, a bridge where connections can be fostered. With a ...