Design Finland

Design Finland - Finnish Design is looking for contributors!

Design Finland - Finnish Design has been very quiet during the last year. Still we have a steady number of visitors, looking for interesting information and news about design in Finland and Finnish design.

We also have a number of designers and design brands approaching on a weekly basis.Unfortunately we haven't had enough time and resource to use all these great opportunities and share them with our readers.

We have a plan to revise the whole site in the near future. But revising the site is not enough, there needs to be content as well. That's why we need more people who are eager to follow the design scene in Finland and want to write articles, take photos or record videos about the whole thing. 

If you have a passion about Finnish and are willing to spend some of your time with the publication, this may be your opportunity. You choose you specific area of interest from design, fashion, industrial design, graphical design or modern art, just as long as it's related to Finland.

We can offer you a channel for your interests and a worldwide audience, priority access to many exclusive news and events and potential to be part of Finland's design scene.

Interested? Want to talk more? Contact Janne via email at designfinland (at) ekana.fi

Design Hotel Klaus K

Finally it's here!

The first design hotel in Finland, Hotel Klaus K has opened it's doors. It's supposed to be inspired by Kalevala (Finland's national epic) and has a Scandinavian style interior with graphics and themes.

Klaus K was built in the premises of old traditional business hotel right in the middle of downtown Helsinki. The architectural design was made by Finnish Sarc Oy and interiors by Swedish Stylt Trampoli Ab, so you should be getting a true Nordic contribution.

The hotel has multiple restaurants, lead by Markus Maulavirta. This is very promising, since Markus is an excellent chef and a big fan of short distance ingredients.

The day spa in conjunction with the hotel is of top quality with a very good reputation (it has been open already for a while).

I haven't been to the hotel or any of the restaurants (Yes, I've done the spa!), so any comments and experiences are very welcome!

Some links for more information:

Hotel: www.klauskhotel.com

Architects: www.sarc.fi

Design: www.stylt.se