Helsinki – Yrjö Kukapuro, a famous Finnish designer whose postmodernist style of chairs decorated the reception, departments and living rooms across Finland, as well as collections at the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Victoria Museum and Albert in London, died. He was 91.
His death on Saturday at his house outside Helsinki was confirmed by his daughter Isa Kukakapura-Andom, in the e-mail of the Associated Press on Sunday, as well as a statement of the KukuPur studio, where she is a curator. The cause of death was not revealed.
“Almost every Finn was sitting on the chair he developed at the subway station, at a bank, school or in the library,” the studio said in a press release. “Yrjö Kukkapuro never stopped developing and coming up with new ideas. Until the end, he reflected on the concept of his new chair, the plan of which was clear in his mind. His assistant did not have time to make a chair.”
In a career that covered more than 70 years, the kukkapura chairs were boasted for comfort, functionalism and ergonomics, as well as their design, as well as names such as Ateljee, Carusell-Cake, Long Chair and, its most famous experiment.
Developed in 1982, the chairman of the experiment was considered avant -garde, but eventually became commercially successful and was regarded as a key fracture for the postmodern style of furniture. The experiment includes decorative, wavy armrests in bright colors, soft back and bottom, as well as its signature of the angular seat, despite the fact that the frame was flat on the ground.
Despite the fact that the initial production stopped in the 1990s, in 2021 the European design of the furniture appealed to the permission in the cucket to reproduce it with small adjustments of scale and construction.
On the HEM website on HEM we were sold until 2399 euros, where a description called “Eternal, Brave today as a day when it was created”.
“In the chairman of the Kukkopur experiment, he sought to add art to functionalism to satisfy the romantic tastes as well as important needs,” the description reads. “The result-divine, true, hero of the twentieth century design.”
Kukkapuro has developed a studio of his family and home to show a wave shape and glass windows from the floor to the ceiling. Built at the end of the 1960s, for him and his wife, artist Irmeli Kukapur, who died in 2022, is planned to become a museum next year.
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