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Straight into the heart

Hanneriina Moisseinen: Cloth Road, 2012. Cloth, lace, textile printing, embroidery thread, acrylic gems, wire. Photos Finnish National Gallery/Central Art Archives/Petri Virtanen.Sometimes ...

6 days ago

Our Estonian darlings

A week ago in Tallinn.The pop singer Tanel Padar was charming his audience at the opening of new Viking Line Quality Outlet Store, where you can find all kind of fashion, food and drink delicacies.&n...

16 may 12

The eternal glow of Helene Schjerfbeck

Girl with big eyes (Karin), 1928. Watercolor and coal on paper. Villa Gyllenberg/Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation.  ”The picture looked more at me than I looked at the picture, stayed in my m...

13 may 12

Coffee, cakes and culture

Katja Hagelstam is a superb photographer and now she is learning how to make a superb cup of coffee. Lokal - a combination of kitchen, living room and minigallery - is the name of her new cosy shop (...

28 apr 12

The boulevard for bag ladies

is of course Pohjoisesplanadi street in Helsinki. First you can check at Ril´s (street number 25) which nice things they have for the summer. Then have a look at the newly renovated Longchamp sh...

26 apr 12

Michael Björklund, our Ambassador of Nordic Taste

That guy has PLANS. - I love Nordic food! And I want to create my own ice cream label and bakery and..., says chef Michael Björklund.Photos © Paula Hietaranta Nordic Culinary Journey is the food...

13 apr 12

New Fashion in Finland, part 5: MARIMEKKO

Tunic VERBENA, scarfs SOMERO, ring AURORA, bracelets TYYNI, SÄDE & MUTKA.If your life lacks joy and colour, you have better to have a look at Marimekko! Here you see some of my favorites of Marim...

04 apr 12

A new Minna Parikka candy shop

Photos @Paula Hietaranta    There are sweet things in life, and this is one of them.OK, this shop does not sell candy but delicious shoes and gloves and bags and scarves by the designer Min...

31 mar 12

Two ladies in the lake

  @ Elina Brotherus & Kira Gluschkoff: Le parc au crépuscule, 2011, 50 x 97 cm.  What if?That was the starting question to a project by Elina Brotherus and Kira Gluschkoff, both we...

24 mar 12

Living Treasures of Arabia

Peilipallo (Mirror Ball, 2012) and Kultainen peurakasa (Pile of Golden Deers, 2009) by Kim Simonsson. Photo @ Paula Hietaranta   If you want to see something breathtakingly beautiful go to Arabi...

15 mar 12

Catwoman´s Revenge

 The French artist Sophie Calle and her smart cat skirt in EMMA.  Photo © Paula HietarantaSophie Calle´s famous work Take Care of Yourself opened last week in EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern A...

07 mar 12

Mr. Parr looks at Finland

Last week Martin Parr, a world-famous phenomen in photography, visited Helsinki to attend the opening of his first solo exhibition in Finland and also to meet with the students at Aalto University´s ...

16 feb 12

Stefan Bremer on the funny side of the street

Stefan Bremer: Oskar´s first ride in the roller coaster, Linnanmäki, 2009. At last a Helsinki book you can enjoy just by looking at! It is a photo book by Stefan Bremer, who is our most distingu...

10 feb 12

Come to meet the creative energy of Helsinki

At first this book looks as appealing as a brick covered with bread-bag clips, but do not let it put you down – inside it you find the most interesting world of 20 Helsinki based designers. (Plus ess...

07 feb 12

Go and see Strange Love

 Timo Kelaranta: Birds, bridges, 2010.What a lovely name for a photo exhibition! Timo Kelaranta´s Outo rakkaus (Strange Love), the spring´s major exhibition in the The Finnish Museum of Photogra...

01 feb 12

The chosen 6

Tapio Anttila, The Furniture Designer of the Year, giving his thank-you speech. The Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo and The Association of Professional Graphic Designers in Finland Grafia awa...

30 jan 12

The Joy of Encouragement

Elastinen is happy. LauriTähkä concentrating. Hopeful PaulaKoivuniemi. Yes or no - doubtfulMike Monroe.* The Voice of Finland, Nelonen TV on Fridays at 8 PM.

23 jan 12

Bid for Finnish artwork on the online auction!

Are you soon the happy owner of Oiva Toikka´s glass cube? Or Klaus Haapaniemi´s watercolor painting of his cat Putte? They are two of the art works on the online auction sponsored by Valio, Finland´...

18 jan 12

Hello Helsinki Design Year 2012!

Chair Rosebud for Vivero by Ilkka Suppanen. Photo by Jani Kaila.  I started the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 year visiting Design Museum and it´s new exhibition Finnish Design Unwrapped wh...

10 jan 12

The summer is now…

 …in the middle of winter. Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to all readers of my blog!

24 dec 11

A portrait of Mrs Marimekko

 Yes, we have seen her in numerous photos during all the years she was the CEO and the dictator of Marimekko. Her black dresses, her black cars, her black stilettos, her creative power and her s...

14 dec 11

Waiting for Santa Claus

We all know how exciting life is in December when you are a kid waiting for the visit of Santa Claus. Every morning a opened new door of the Advent Calendar tells us that the much awaited Christmas e...

05 dec 11

Ladies first!

 Saana Wang: Hujialou#80, 2009. Pigment print on aluminium,  84 x 100 cm with frame.  Edition of 5 + 2 AP. This is SO true - the ladies rule today in the Finnish photography. Let´...

01 dec 11

75 years of down light quality

  They are warm, clean, light. And pure.They are the down products by Joutsen Finland Oy, and I know what I´m talking about. I adore my tiny travel down pillow and use it every night, even at ho...

13 nov 11

Pasi Eerik Karjula´s Bad Dough

Last opening hours of Pasi Eerik Karjula´s exhibition Bad Dough in Forum Box gallery this afternoon... I had to take his picture with his collection of small wooden pieces. He had named them as Pie...

30 oct 11

Mari and Marila – hot names of the Finnish art scene

Mari Sunna: Untitled, 2010. Oil on canvas, 60 x 51 cm. Today – at last - I visited two galleries in Helsinki and saw two suberb exhibitions by Finnish painters. Both are open only to the end of thi...

20 oct 11

New Fashion in Finland, part 4: Tiia Vanhatapio

Congratulations! In the Finnish Elle Style Award gala 2011 on Wednesday the Best Collection Prize went to Tiia Vanhatapio and her lovely "Girls on Film".Here are my favorites of the collect...

14 oct 11

Fresh food from the neighbourhood

Greetings from the cabbage heaven in Vihti: Tuomas Kekki sells his cabbages at Aitokauppa.Food is nowadays travelling a lot more than we people of this planet. And that is in most cases SOOO stupid. ...

13 oct 11

New Fashion in Finland, part 3: Daniel Palillo KIDS

Hello you proud parents of the little monsters! Our dear Daniel Palillo has made a lovely collection of kid´s clothes we have been waiting for months. But alas, you can buy only a few of them in Finl...

23 sep 11

New light in Habitare Helsinki

The family of trash designer Henrik Enbom has eaten a lot of canned tomatoes. Yes, he made these lampshades from the tins. Habitare is a HUGE exhibition of furniture, interior design, art, antiques a...

15 sep 11

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