5 New Design Exhibitions for June 2014
..."Ilmari Tapiovaara" at Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland To mark the centenary of Ilmari Tapiovaara's birth the Finnish Design Museum in Helsinki is devoting a major retrospective to one of the most important protagonists of "Scandinavian Modernism" yet one who remains largely in the shadows of the likes of Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen or Hans J... Following the completion of his Interior Design studies at Helsinki Central School of Arts and Crafts - the wonderfully named Taideteollisuuskeskuskoulu - Ilmari Tapiovaara undertook a six month tenure in Le Corbusier's Paris studio before returning to Finland to first take up a position with Finnish furniture manufacturer Asko Oy in Lahti before subsequently undertaking ever more freelance projects...