Yrjö Kukkapuro: The Blue Door
€41
Keyword: 1950s-2000s, interior design, furniture, fiber glass, functionalism, modernism, Finnish designer
Subtitle: Yrjö Kukkapuro, Life and Work
Size: 175 x 240 mm
Pages: 245
Format: softcover (Swiss bound)
Language: English
Illustration: richly, in mostly color
Text: Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom
Book design: Dog Design
Printing: Jelgavas
Publisher: Dodo
Pub Year: 2023
Weight: 653 gr
ISBN: 9789526842431
Description
Article no.: 9789526842431
Finnish designer Yrjö Kukkapuro, a modernists in Finish furniture design, designed classics like lounge chair Karuselli
From the publisher:
Yrjö Kukkapuro is one of the great modernists in Finnish furniture design. His biography takes the reader from Vyborg in the 1930s down the decades to the 21st century.
Most Finns have sat on one of his chairs at some point, whether in a health centre, school, auditorium, metro carriage, theatre, library or office. This is the story of the man behind the chairs, the creative buzz in his profession, and surrounding social change.
From the publisher:
Yrjö Kukkapuro is one of the great modernists in Finnish furniture design. His biography takes the reader from Vyborg in the 1930s down the decades to the 21st century.
Most Finns have sat on one of his chairs at some point, whether in a health centre, school, auditorium, metro carriage, theatre, library or office. This is the story of the man behind the chairs, the creative buzz in his profession, and surrounding social change.