A vivid orange Helsinki subway seat and an legendary timber sauna stool are between the items in this exhibition of do the job by structure duo and pair Antti and Vuokko Nurmesniemi.
Numerous performs by the late inside architect Antti Nurmesniemi and textile designer Vuokko Nurmesniemi are introduced in this eponymous exhibition at Helsinki Design Museum, which charts the pair’s get the job done from the 1950s to the 2000s.
From kitchen area crockery to colourful textiles, the Nurmesniemis established a broad selection of layouts collectively and separately over their solo and shared careers just before Antti’s dying in 2003.
“The exhibition is significant due to the fact there has by no means been a joint retrospective exhibition about this central designer couple in Finnish structure background,” curator Susanna Aaltonen explained to Dezeen.
Arranged across a gallery at Helsinki Design Museum, the present contains a striking orange subway seat that Antti created in 1982 in collaboration with industrial designer Börje Rajalin – a design that is nonetheless in use on Helsinki transportation now.
Website visitors can also locate an substantial cluster of clothes showcasing shiny hues and geometric styles, created by Vuokko for her style label Vuokko Oy, which she started in 1964.
A purple Pehtoori coffee pot from 1957 by Antti is also on exhibit – described by Aaltonen as a product or service that is “normally highlighted as Finland’s early industrial structure item” – as effectively as tasteful styles of electrical energy pylons made with inside architect Jorma Valkama in 1997.
Also central to the exhibition are photos of and furniture from Studio Dwelling Nurmesniemi, the couple’s stay-function household and atelier in Kulosaari, Helsinki, which was concluded in 1975.
These pieces include things like signature wooden sauna stools and 1980s geometric lounge chairs built by Antti and upholstered in Vuokko Oy pinstripe materials.
This home furniture is displayed along with archival imagery of the designers in their modernist home – a placing still utilized for Vyokko Oy photoshoots.
“All in all, the couple’s shared residence and studio property is the best instance of the [their] way of living committed to design,” mirrored Aaltonen.
“I hope that the exhibition will improve people’s knowing of Finnish cultural heritage and that people today will also master to cherish and protect objects far better, in particular interiors.”
Other exhibits at Helsinki Layout Museum include things like a the latest exhibition by design studio Formafantasma and furniture brand name Artek and a non permanent “insect hotel” set up that is at this time on show exterior the museum.
Prior retrospectives at the museum include things like a person centred on the plastic home furniture and chairs of Finnish designer Eero Aarino.
Antti + Vuokko Nurmesniemi is on screen at Helsinki Structure Museum from 28 Oct 2022 to 9 March 2023. See Dezeen Functions Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design occasions using place around the entire world.
The photography is by Paavo Lehtonen unless of course usually mentioned.
