Timo Sarpaneva is the focus of an exhibition at the Design Museum in Helsinki, Finland. He has had enormous influence on two of our Smart Brands partners Iittala and Rosenthal.
Also in the exhibition are photographs that tell some of his story — among them, images of the fantastical, crowd-attracting shop windows (adorned with glass harps and butterflies hanging from invisible wires) that he created for Iittala, the company that hired him in 1950. It was there that he ...Read more of post
Nice to see Fiskars, which owns Waterford and Wedgwood, mentioned in this week's New Yorker magazine article on Finland's 100th anniversary of independence from Russia.
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