Design|The most famous works of the late designer and interior architect Yrjö Kukkapuro include the Carousel Chair and the Ateljee series.
On Saturday 91-year-old died designer and interior designer Yrjö Kukkapuro Remember of several of their millions of furniture collections sold.
Many Finns have unknowingly awaited, listened or drove a flower cephal in a long back and short -footed position: in a health center, school, auditorium, metro station, theater, library or office. His production covers more than 130 chairs.
In addition to everyday places, Kukkapuro’s work is on display in the collections of the New York Moma, the London V&A Museum and the Vitra Design Museum.
Designer Yrjö Kukkapuro’s Crown Jewish Stone is a carousel armchair, published to the general public at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1965.
Florist Crown Jewish Stone is a Carousel armchair that was published to the general public at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1965.
The work called the world’s “most famous” and the “nicest” chair began when a young flower clerk was sitting on an interior architect Caused the city lecture at the Ateneum.
Borg lectured in Swedish Bengt Åkerblomin Based on research, how people sit in bad positions in their bad positions. The flower puro says he was running out of the class right after the lecture – then he knew what he had to plan.
“Lumbar support, seat depth, seat and backrest angle, armrests … The whole dimension must be such that it is suitable for humans. The chair must be healthy, ”he described to HS In 2022.
Florist He designed top-notch plastic and fiberglass chairs on the road signed by carousel until 1973.
The Saturn’s Series, which was influenced by pop art, represents the plastic season for the 1960s design. Futuristic furniture has used fiberglass.
Saturn’s sofa Timo Klaavu and Anna Tkacheva in Töölö.
In 1963, a minimalist studio series was published, including a lightweight module sofa. The studio series is on display at both New York Moma and the London V&A Museum.
The studio sofa designed by Yrjö Kukkapuro in 1963.
Kukkapuro is also remembered for his 1969 Remmi series. The steel-frame Remmi armchair is one of the most popular furniture in Kukkapuro.
The Remmi chair is one of the classics of Yrjö Kukkapuro.
When In the 1970s, Kukkapuro heard about the news oil crisis, and he woke up to the problematic use of plastic. He changed the birch plywood as the main material and continued on that road until the end.
Plywood has been used, for example, in the Skaala Chair Series published in the 1980s.
On the left is the Skaala chair designed by Yrjö Kukkapuro. To the right, the office chair of the Plaano collection.