NEW FINNISH DESIGN SCENARIOS
Meatpacking District, New York, USA
Exhibition concept and architecture Sari Anttonen, 2011
New Finnish Design Scenarios – A Story about what Happened in the Future offered inspirational look at the designers, design studios, manufacturers and products that are shaping the landscape of modern Finnish design.
The multi-layered Scenarios event highlighted a wide array of design items and concepts by selected group of Finnish design companies, individual designers and design studios. In addition to objects presented in the show; illustrated stories of the early years of the participating companies allowed visitors to familiarize themselves with the ideas, inspirations, and processes traditionally found at the heard of Finnish design. The presentations on the exhibition were extended to cover the future visions through texts, as well through ideas and sketches born during the event.
Organised by Design Forum Finland and Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
RELATIONS SERIE
Chairs, double seat, bench, tables and shelves
Design Sari Anttonen, Reflex Design, 2004
Prototypes
Relations furniture design development project was financed by Tekes - the National Technology Agency in Finland in which the innovative use of recycled plastics in furniture was studied.
RELATIONS SERIE
Chairs, double seat, bench, tables and shelves
Design Sari Anttonen, Reflex Design, 2004
Prototypes
Relations furniture design development project was financed by Tekes - the National Technology Agency in Finland in which the innovative use of recycled plastics in furniture was studied.
RELATIONS SERIE
Chairs, double seat, bench, tables and shelves
Design Sari Anttonen, Reflex Design, 2004
Prototypes
Relations furniture design development project was financed by Tekes - the National Technology Agency in Finland in which the innovative use of recycled plastics in furniture was studied.
RELATIONS SERIE
Chairs, double seat, bench, tables and shelves
Design Sari Anttonen, Reflex Design, 2004
Prototypes
Relations furniture design development project was financed by Tekes - the National Technology Agency in Finland in which the innovative use of recycled plastics in furniture was studied.
RELATIONS SERIE
Chairs, double seat, bench, tables and shelves
Design Sari Anttonen, Reflex Design, 2004
Prototypes
Relations furniture design development project was financed by Tekes - the National Technology Agency in Finland in which the innovative use of recycled plastics in furniture was studied.
CHOICES exhibition
Museum of Central Finland, Jyväskylä
Exhibition concept and architecture Sari Anttonen, Reflex Design, 2004
Sari Anttonen was invited to be the chairman for the 4th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar in Jyväskylä August 2004.
Seminar was accompanied by Choices exhibition displaying selections of objects from each lecturer: Gaetano Pesce, Jasper Morrison, Paola Antonelli, Patricia Urquiola, Matali Crasset, Anna von Schewen, Harri Koskinen and Inaki Ábalos.
CHOICES exhibition
Museum of Central Finland, Jyväskylä
Exhibition concept and architecture Sari Anttonen, Reflex Design, 2004
Sari Anttonen was invited to be the chairman for the 4th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar in Jyväskylä August 2004.
Seminar was accompanied by Choices exhibition displaying selections of objects from each lecturer: Gaetano Pesce, Jasper Morrison, Paola Antonelli, Patricia Urquiola, Matali Crasset, Anna von Schewen, Harri Koskinen and Inaki Ábalos.
KISS chair
Design Sari Anttonen, 1998
Produced by Piiroinen
KISS chair unfolds identical seat and backrest issued from the same mould and fixed to a tube frame by simple clicking. Beyond the flexibility and appropriability it allows, the use of solid polyurethane for this ingenious assembling also provides great comfort by its elasticity and ensures easy selective recycling.
More information: www.piiroinen.com
KISS chair
Design Sari Anttonen, 1998
Produced by Piiroinen
KISS chair unfolds identical seat and backrest issued from the same mould and fixed to a tube frame by simple clicking. Beyond the flexibility and appropriability it allows, the use of solid polyurethane for this ingenious assembling also provides great comfort by its elasticity and ensures easy selective recycling.
More information: www.piiroinen.com
KIASMA GLASS
Design Sari Anttonen
Produced by Reflex Design
for the Kiasma Store in Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
In the design can be found the concept of kiasma (crossing over). Its sides are asymmetric and his shape emerges at the crossing of geometric and organic. It takes glass to its optimal potential: a organic in its very nature, geometric as cultural designed object. When looking at more than one glass at the same time, there comes an impression of uniqueness even though each glass is similar.
MASTERS OF ARTS 04
Exhibition at Design Museum, Helsinki
Exhibition architect Sari Anttonen Reflex Design, 2004
Graphic design Aimo Katajamäki
Masters of Arts 2004 is the juried exhibition of the best diploma works of the University of Art and Design. It is a venue for the young professionals of visual culture to exhibit their limitless skills to a larger audience. The young talents of the carnival also attract prospective employers and enterprises.
The event introduces the freshest trends in design, visual arts, art education, film and multimedia.
Exhibiting 60 works from all design departments of UIAH.
MASTERS OF ARTS 04
Exhibition at Design Museum, Helsinki
Exhibition architect Sari Anttonen Reflex Design, 2004
Graphic design Aimo Katajamäki
Masters of Arts 2004 is the juried exhibition of the best diploma works of the University of Art and Design. It is a venue for the young professionals of visual culture to exhibit their limitless skills to a larger audience. The young talents of the carnival also attract prospective employers and enterprises.
The event introduces the freshest trends in design, visual arts, art education, film and multimedia.
Exhibiting 60 works from all design departments of UIAH.
INTERIOR DESIGN
Stairway and lobbie concept Sari Anttonen 2010
Interior design concept for SATO Residential Development Stairways and lobbies in rental apartment houses.
TUBAB
Omar coat rack; Buba shelf; Soda, Fatou, Sohna chairs
Design Sari Anttonen & Leena Carelse, 1996
Nen tables, design Sari Anttonen, 2000
Made in Senegal
Tubab is a series of furniture made from recycled petrol cans, truck parts and seats from scrapped buses. Originally commissioned by the Centre d'Architecture, de Recherche et de Création (Centre ARC), the furniture were designed and developed to be produced in a small series during a stay of three months in Rufisque, Senegal. Designed in a non-industrial context, they share a similar steel tube structure and recycled metal sheets. The production of Tubab furniture results in a diversified series where each piece is unique in texture and material colouring while sharing the structural identity and silhouette of a group. These pieces have a strong presence and reflect their origins, where industrial rejections, traditional mastering and ancestral mystery live together. Tubab furniture has been also available outside Finland distributed by ARCTIKK.
TUBAB
Omar coat rack; Buba shelf; Soda, Fatou, Sohna chairs
Design Sari Anttonen & Leena Carelse, 1996
Nen tables, design Sari Anttonen, 2000
Made in Senegal
Tubab is a series of furniture made from recycled petrol cans, truck parts and seats from scrapped buses. Originally commissioned by the Centre d'Architecture, de Recherche et de Création (Centre ARC), the furniture were designed and developed to be produced in a small series during a stay of three months in Rufisque, Senegal. Designed in a non-industrial context, they share a similar steel tube structure and recycled metal sheets. The production of Tubab furniture results in a diversified series where each piece is unique in texture and material colouring while sharing the structural identity and silhouette of a group. These pieces have a strong presence and reflect their origins, where industrial rejections, traditional mastering and ancestral mystery live together. Tubab furniture has been also available outside Finland distributed by ARCTIKK.
PIIROINEN SHOWROOM
Pohjoisesplanadi 21, Helsinki
Interior architects Sari Anttonen & Nicolas Favet, Reflex Design, 2001
Interior design for Finnish furniture company Piiroinen. Showroom including display structures, meeting facilities and work stations.
ON THIS SIDE OF THE OCEAN
Exhibition design Sari Anttonen & Nicolas Favet, 1998
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki
The opening exhibition of Kiasma presented contemporary Finnish art in the brand new building designed by Steven Holl. The exhibition structures and the movement of the audience were designed in order to enable a focus on both art and architecture without detracting from either. The art works were detached from the walls so that visitors were able to walk around them. Each work was provided with a special structure in collaboration with the artist.
ON THIS SIDE OF THE OCEAN
exhibition design Sari Anttonen & Nicolas Favet, 1998
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki
The opening exhibition of Kiasma presented contemporary Finnish art in the brand new building designed by Steven Holl. The exhibition structures and the movement of the audience were designed in order to enable a focus on both art and architecture without detracting from either. The art works were detached from the walls so that visitors were able to walk around them. Each work was provided with a special structure in collaboration with the artist.
PRÊT-À-PORTER
Sofa and armchair
Design Sari Anttonen, 1994
Produced by Asko 1999–2001
The easily removable backrests and small table units of both sofa and armchair allow Prêt-à-Porter to easily transform into a stool, ottoman or a chaise longue. Ingenious technical solutions permit a minimal and essential use of materials to reach maximum comfort and functional potentials. The removable and washable slipcovers are like clothes, making the furniture easy to live with and allowing a wide range of fanciful and customised combinations.
