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| February 2001 |
| Form Function Finland |
| Departures exhibition |
Vessel is a tableware shop in Kensington Park Road, London specialising in Scandinavian design and art glass. opened a few years ago, it is owned by Nadia Demetriou Ladas, who was also bold enough to open a small design gallery in connection with the shop. For the coming months of July and August she has invited a group of students from the University of Art and Design Helsinki to display their works in an alternative degree show entitled ‘Departures’.
These graduating students of glass and ceramic design were commissioned to create objects for a real company, Tony Alfstrom’s and brian Keaney’s Tonfisk Design. Alfstrom and Keaney are recent graduates from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and also recipients of the Young Designer’s Award of 1999 from Hackman Pro Design Foundation. The course was also supervised by glass designer Annaleena Hakatie.
The twelve students of the course, Hannaliisa Hailahti, Susanna Hoikkala, Renata Noemi Nagy, Kaisa Nykanen, Jenni Ojala, Viktoria Pettersson, Laura Pokela, Pinja Rojo, Sami Ruotsalainen, Heli Stolt, Tanja Sipila and Satu Typpo, designed ingenious small tableware items, from salt and pepper sets to lemon presses to vinegar bottles and serving dishes, in keeping with Tonfisk Design’s motto “Form follows function doesn’t mean all objects have to look the same”.
Finnish design will be on show at Vessel gallery again in December, with the showing of Timo Sarpaneva’s Suomi service, designed for Rosenthal and now in its 25th anniversary year.
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