Finnish Modern Design

Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-97

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Edited by Marianne Aav and Nina Strizler-Levine

Yale University Press

Due/Published April 1998, 352 pages, cloth

ISBN 0300075049

This book examines the outstanding design achievements of Finland over the last seven decades, focusing on the central and decisive role played by Modernism. It is the first volume in English to provide a thorough account of the artistic and cultural qualities of Finnish design as diestinguished from the design of Nordic and other European neighbors. Also considered are the principal ideas, individuals, and influences that combined to produce Finnish modernism, as well as its international reception. The book discusses the work of such Finnish architects and designers as Alvar Aalto, Tapio Wirkkala, Kaj Franck, and Tima Sarpaneva, and of manufacturers including Artek, Arabia, and Marimekko. With 100 b&w illustrations and 200 color illustrations.