September 5 2015, 11-17, at Kaapelitehdas
Helsinki Design Week starts on 3-13 of September,
and is the biggest design stock sale in the Nordic countries. As tradition,
taking place at Kaapelitehdas (Cable Factory), the event hosts a selection of
interior products to fashion accessories from nearly 200 local design
companies/studios. This year the selection is completed with the visiting
designers from Estonia (since Tallinn is so called ‘Finns’ backyard’, and more
and more garments are made or sewn in Estonia, this is not a surprise but a
very welcome). Also Design Market in 2015 also spares the upper level of the
Cable Factory, to make paper material producers to show and sell their new
prints, books, posters or magazines.
This year I have no duty for any brand at
Design Market, so I can just join as a freelance journalist and curious shopper
for my personal interest. At the beach side corner of Factory, Japanese ceramic/clay
sculpture Yasushi Koyama presents the various collections of wild lives.
Combining the ivory white curating setting and baby pink polka dots
paints-on-wall, the owl, the bear and the dog are smiling, the puppy is
sleeping in a broken egg, and don’t forget Koyama’s signature, panda, is
holding mini panda in public. This year I purchased a ceramic penguin to
accompany the doggie on my make-up desk.
I visit R/H, where I have interned in 2013,
for the chatting with the designer Hanna Riiheläinen, trying some trousers
(unfortunately not suitable for me), and finally purchasing R/H cotton tote
bag. I also hang around at Chao & Eero Jewelry, Month of Sundays and Minna
Parikka, and find RCM this independent sustainable hemp apparel brand from
Turku is interesting and giving ecologically consciousness a new hope, since
Nurmi, from Lahti, which is also using hemp as part of the jeans design, is
taking the time out in September, 2015.
Also from Turku, Finnish kitchenware design
Tonfisk is presenting Warm, the tea and coffee set, combined ceramic teacups
with bracelets of laminated bent wood. Launched in 1998, Tonfisk Warm
collection not just keeps sudden heat burning from the afternoon teatime, but
also becomes a mini classic of Finnish everyday necessities.
Joining theses events is one of the best
parts living in Helsinki. I am looking forward to Design District Market in
November already.
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