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window-shopping at lundia
since moving to finland i've discovered that i am a big fan of finnish modernist design. i've always been fascinated by interior design in the sort of casual way you pick up interests from your parents by osmosis, as opposed to the passionate way i am about hobbies i discovered on my own. my parents' house is a 110-year-old farmhouse, so obviously, when my mother allowed me to redesign rooms in it, it was antiques and older styles we were working with. but i've been fascinated with japanese minimalism too since i first saw japan in high school, and the compatability of the japanese and finnish minimalist designs is also something really interesting.
finnish minimalism, like japanese minimalism, involves a lot of negative space, a lot of white and natural pale wood, and a lot of rectangular shapes. but finnish minimalism is also modernist and involves playful colours and prints, modern sculptural shapes, and glass. (see: alvar aalto, finnish modernist designer and architect; marimekko textiles and clothing; iittala glassware.)
there is a lundia store nearby which i frequently walk past with the dog, admiring the display windows. lundia is a very finnish furniture store - quite a bit more expensive than ikea, so who knows if i will ever actually buy anything in it, but i'm very fond of looking in at the displays. there are natural wood tables with black panels, low square chests, and oodles of sofas that look like park benches adorned with giant cloth-covered building blocks. the plain wood frames, the little pale legs, the backs sitting separate from the seats - i find these sofas very pleasing.
lundia is most famous for their plain blond wood shelves, which look like ikea's ivar (in other words, like ours) but are sturdier and cost a lot more. i kind of want to go in that store like a tourist and wibble over everything. every now and then when something like this comes up i miss my mom, because there's no one as fun as her for talking about art and design with. :/ but hey, if anyone wants to take a field trip with me...
eta: on another design note entirely, who remembers trading spaces? it really sucks that that show died out before the age of torrents, because i can't find any way to get the episodes. i loved that show.
finnish minimalism, like japanese minimalism, involves a lot of negative space, a lot of white and natural pale wood, and a lot of rectangular shapes. but finnish minimalism is also modernist and involves playful colours and prints, modern sculptural shapes, and glass. (see: alvar aalto, finnish modernist designer and architect; marimekko textiles and clothing; iittala glassware.)
there is a lundia store nearby which i frequently walk past with the dog, admiring the display windows. lundia is a very finnish furniture store - quite a bit more expensive than ikea, so who knows if i will ever actually buy anything in it, but i'm very fond of looking in at the displays. there are natural wood tables with black panels, low square chests, and oodles of sofas that look like park benches adorned with giant cloth-covered building blocks. the plain wood frames, the little pale legs, the backs sitting separate from the seats - i find these sofas very pleasing.
lundia is most famous for their plain blond wood shelves, which look like ikea's ivar (in other words, like ours) but are sturdier and cost a lot more. i kind of want to go in that store like a tourist and wibble over everything. every now and then when something like this comes up i miss my mom, because there's no one as fun as her for talking about art and design with. :/ but hey, if anyone wants to take a field trip with me...
eta: on another design note entirely, who remembers trading spaces? it really sucks that that show died out before the age of torrents, because i can't find any way to get the episodes. i loved that show.
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