Blue door

Yrjö Kukkapuro is the great modernist of Finnish furniture design. The biography takes the reader from 1930s Viipuri through the years to the 2000s. Most Finns have at some point sat on a chair he designed. In a health centre, a school, an auditorium, the metro, a theatre, a library or an office. This is the story of the man behind the chairs. Around him, colourful professional work and the development of society are in ferment. Blue door (Sininen ovi), Yrjö Kukkapuro’s biography Author: Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom