Design Finland ~ Scandinavian Modern Style Home Decor

Colorado Aspen Forest lamp shade

2012-01-16T11:43:00.000-08:00

New, unique lamp shade from Finn Fab Designs... Colorado Aspen Forest. The design is based on aspen leaves... every leaf looks like a tiny aspen tree.

Unique iPad cover sleeves

2011-11-09T10:31:00.000-08:00

New funky ipad cover sleeves from Finn Fab Designs!

2011-09-18T18:42:00.000-07:00

Retro style Fruit Play lamp shade by Finn Fab Designs! Designs is inspired by harvest time. All the fruit and berries are getting ripe. What a gorgeous play of colors!

New modern pillow cases from Finn Fab Designs

2011-06-16T17:14:00.000-07:00

A couple of new fabric patterns from Finn Fab Designs... have pretty retro feel to them!

Crop Circles

In Maze

Black and white Big Wheels Finn Fab Designs fabric wall hanging

2011-03-20T11:39:00.000-07:00

Black and white Big Wheels Finn Fab Designs fabric wall hanging. Crisp and minimalist design for modern interior decoration. Contemporary focal point!

Finn Fab Designs Geometric lamp shade

2011-03-06T09:44:00.000-08:00

New design by Finn Fab Designs... Geometric.

Geometric lamp shade

Finn Fab Designs - Scandinavian style home decor

2011-02-20T17:48:00.000-08:00

Finn Fab Designs fabric patterns are based on Finnish nature and modern life offering personal and unique styles for decorating your home.

Retro Flowers Lamp Shade

Kalevala Lamp Shade

Autumn Pillow Case

Marimekko Katsuji Wakisaka UTA fabric lamp shade

2011-02-06T13:07:00.000-08:00

Custom made Marimekko Katsuji Wakisaka UTA fabric lamp shade...

Unique Marimekko Fazer Lumene Valentine's Gift

2011-01-25T11:30:00.000-08:00

Marimekko fabric bag with Lumene cosmetics and Fazer chocolate. Fabric bag can be used as a make-up bag. Lumene Cloudberry Vitamin C Day Cream 0.5 oz. Lumene Premium Hand Treatment Cream 2.5 oz. Fazer Lingonberry Parfait Chocolate. Gift wrapping included!

Custom Padded Marimekko iPad sleeves

2011-01-20T19:30:00.000-08:00

Custom made padded Marimekko iPad sleeve. Select your fabric pattern.

Size: 12" x 9"

Light weight, retro Marimekko fabric design iPad sleeve with one pocket inside and a flap with velcro to cover the top of your iPad. White or black interior. Great way to protect your iPad or notebook!

Ancient and Elegant eating utensils

2010-12-04T09:23:00.000-08:00

In ancient times people in Arctic areas used these kind of tongs for eating hot foods. Beautiful Northern birch is delicate looking but very durable! These would be great serving utensils also.

These are made by Mauri Poylio, 100 miles north from the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland. True Lapland craft, "duodji".

Marimekko Fazer chocolate gift baskets

2010-11-26T11:17:00.000-08:00

Unique Marimekko fabric gift baskets filled with Fazer chocolates, Swedish treats and Paulig coffee! Gift baskets are made of Marimekko fabric and can later be used as a paper basket or storing small items. You can pick up Marimekko fabric design of your choice. All gift baskets will be gift wrapped in cellophane and packed extra carefully.

Finn Fab Home decor

2010-11-06T11:41:00.000-07:00

Finn Fab lamp shades and throw pillow cases for unique home decor!

New fabric designs...

2010-10-22T08:39:00.000-07:00

Just a few new fabric designs...

Marimekko Lamp Shades

2010-09-12T22:20:00.000-07:00

Some custom made Marimekko Lamp Shades. They come with a brass harp to fit most floor or table lamps. The first one is called Kuusama (Honeysuckle), design by Tanja Orsjoki and the second one is famous Maija Isola design Unikko (Poppy) from 1960's. Very funky way to spice your home decor!

Marimekko Taikamylly Wall Hangings

2010-09-06T08:19:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite Marimekko designs, Taikamylly (Magic Mill) by Sanna Anukka. Unfortunately they have discontinued this one in colors. Available only in black & white, but I managed to find a couple of really bold and bright color ones! Aren't they gorgeous!!

Arctic Reindeer Stoneware

2010-06-10T15:16:00.000-07:00

Arctic Reindeer Stoneware is back in stock... these pieces will be noticed in any home! All handcrafted and painted. Unique Scandinavian modern design combined with ancient mythology.

Jokipiin Pellava 90th Anniversary of Linen Making

2010-02-15T14:15:00.000-08:00

Jokipiin Pellava Oy is a family company founded in 1920. Until 1989 the company was known by the name "Jokipiin Villa- ja Pellavakehräämö Oy".

JP is specialized in weaving and sewing linen textiles for interior and bath&sauna. Their expertise is jacquard weaving, logo weaving, machine embroidery, linen terry and ecological textiles.

Traditional Lapland Utensils by Mauri Pöyliö

2009-09-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

Mauri Pöyliö is a craftsman living in Finnish Lapland, over 100 miles north from the Arctic Circle. He is known of his high quality traditional Lapland knives, kuksas and wooden accessories.

Every product is unique and handmade following ancient Lapland traditions. They are delicate looking, but durable just the way they are done for generations in Arctic areas.

Scandinavian Christmas Linen from Finland

2008-11-21T08:11:00.000-08:00

Elegance, durability and practicality are features that Finns have always demanded from the best interior design products. Lapuan Kankurit Oy, founded in 1973, is a modern Jacquard-weaving mill seeking product ideas from current needs while paying homage to the strong Finnish textile traditions. Using the natural fibers of linen and cotton, LK aims to design and manufacture modern, high-quality decorative textiles as well as textiles for everyday use in Scandinavian homes.

Even the best weaving equipment will never replace skilled textiles professionals. The ability of the mill staff, the designers and the suppliers to cooperate seamlessly is a constant source of new ideas. Product development requires open-mindedness and the ability to deal with risks associated with innovation. Courage is required in order to question old practices, and this is a rare quality found in a select few. It is the job of the designers to boldly create linen interior design textiles for Scandinavian homes.

Nancy Bladfält's and Marja Rautiainen's new holiday patterns brings a merry air to the Christmas kitchen. The color of the Joulupuu (Christmas Tree), Pipari (Gingerbread) and Lumihiutale (Snow Flake) rib cloth and kitchen towel are a fresh red-and-white. Those new table textiles create a genuine feeling of traditional Christmas. The festive tablecloths and light glass towels are 100% linen. The color options include white, red, blue, brown and black. In addition, the red and light green Julia towels and runners fit into the homey Christmas kitchen.

All products carrying the Lapuan Kankurit label are designed, manufactured and finished at the weaving mill in Lapua, Finland.

Handmade Shaman Drums from Finnish Lapland

2008-11-01T15:20:00.000-07:00

The Sámi drums are oval wooden frames (South Sámi gievrie) or bowls (North Sámi goavddis) covered with reindeer skin. The drum skins are decorated with traditional shamanistic patterns.

Characterized by a central Sun Cross and an unbroken path around the edge. Individual figures are commonly placed on the arms of the sun-cross, on the outer path or floating between these. The typical symbols on a Sami drum are gods (Thunder, Horn, Wind and Mother), people, reindeer and other animals and different kind of tools. Every drum is unique and one will never find two quite alike.

The Sámi (Saame in Finnish) have lived in Finland since ancient times. According to current belief, the Sámi are ethnically the offspring of development that covered many generations. They are thought to have descended from the people who settled in Fennoscandia after the last Ice Age, about 7,500 years BC.

The old Sámi religion was founded on an animistic world-view and a shamanistic form of worship in which drumming on the "runebomme" (ritual drum) and traditional chanting, yoiking, were of great importance. Nature was considered life-giving, and mountains, stone formations and lakes could be of help to the people if they worshipped them and brought them sacrificial gifts. Natural phenomena were gods. The sun (Paivo) had a central place, not as a personified god, but as a basic cosmic force, which extended its rays across the world and carried the personified gods on its rays. These gods were not people, but intermediary figures between human beings and greater forces. Dierpmis (the god of thunder) was worshipped fervently. Bieggolmmái (the god of wind), mánnu (the moon) and áhcolmmái (the god of water) were revered because they had the power to improve people’s conditions.

Asta Pulkkinen ~ Naive Artist

2008-10-30T14:13:00.000-07:00

Asta Pulkkinen is one of the most famous naive painter in Finland. She is a member of Finnish Naivist Group which has an exhibition in Iittala Village every summer. All ornaments are made of paper mash and hand painted according to Asta's design. Pulkkinen designs are based on Finnish countryside living, summer, winter and Christmas. Asta's favorite elements among Finnish landscape are children, angels, countryside, cows and dogs.

New Design by Pekka Antikainen

2008-10-03T08:40:00.000-07:00

Pekka Antikainen has created new gorgeous designs again! The Medieval Horseman series includes stoneware bowls, plates and keepsake boxes.

Following his Lapland theme comes the Shaman Sun series with astonishing vibrant colors!

The third new stoneware design is based on Finnish bird motif from 800 A.D. ~ Hattula Bird. This Scandinavian jewelry design is found in ancient burial places in Hattula, southern Finland. The northern peoples had a special relationship with waterfowl, which symbolized fertility. For the population of the north, the return of birds in the spring signified summer, the start of a new year. When the waterfowl returned, people knew that nature was emerging from its winter sleep. Waterfowl featured the magic of fertility.

Bianco Blu ~ Modern Finnish Art Glass

2007-11-12T18:01:00.000-08:00

Bianco Blu makes various glass products, including adornments, utility items, and works of art. They produce business presents for enterprises and manufacture items on order. BB designs all their products by themselves or co-operate with glass artists and designers, including Ristomatti Ratia, Pauli Partanen, Camilla Moberg, and Martti Aiha. BB also co-operates with Italian artist Mauro Capitani and Yong-Phil Lee from South Korea.

Tarmo Maaronen, the owner of Bianco Blu, has been blowing glass since 1979 when he started as a apprentice in Nuutajarvi Glassworks. In early 1990's Maaronen worked for several small glass studios in Finland and also taught Scandinavian glass blowing techniques in Florence Italy for a couple of years before opening his own studio, Bianco Blu in 1997. He has become one of the most respected and skilled glass-blowers in Scandinavia.

Reima Maaronen, Tarmo's older brother joined Bianco Blu in 2002. He also has a long career in glass blowing. Reima started blowing glass in 1972. He spent years in Nuutajarvi Glassworks before joining his brother in Bianco Blu.

Finnish Linen ~ Traditions In Modern Style

2007-11-07T12:23:00.000-08:00

Elegance, durability and practicality are features that Finns have always demanded from the best interior design products and Finnish linen does not make exception!

Even the best weaving equipment will never replace skilled textiles professionals. The ability of the mill staff, the designers and the suppliers to cooperate seamlessly is a constant source of new ideas. Product development requires open-mindedness and the ability to deal with risks associated with innovation. Courage is required in order to question old practices, and this is a rare quality found in a select few. It is the designers’ job to courageously create linen interior design textiles for Scandinavian homes. In Finnish linen designs tradition and old world elegance unites with fresh modern ideas, creating curious and timeless beauty for any home.

Today, there are two major linen weaving mills Jokipiin Pellava and Lapuan Kankurit in Finland, both in traditional Ostrabothnia weaving area.

Jokipiin Pellava Oy is a family company founded in 1920. Until 1989 the company was known by the name "Jokipiin Villa- ja Pellavakehräämö Oy".

The raw material that we use is increasingly linen yarn that has been grown and refined in Finland. This is called Nord Lin linen. Linen farming re-started in Finland in the 90's. The largest areas in Finland are in the Ostrobothnian region.

Jokipiin Pellava is specialized in weaving linen terry towels and other linen textiles that fulfill the demands of home and public interiors.

Lapuan Kankurit Oy, founded in 1973, is a modern Jacquard-weaving mill seeking product ideas from current needs while paying homage to the strong Finnish textile traditions. Using the natural fibers of linen and cotton, they aim to design and manufacture modern, high-quality decorative textiles as well as textiles for everyday use.

All linen products are designed, manufactured and finished at companies’ own weaving mills in Finland.