tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741938237857921272024-02-22T23:43:22.345-08:00Imu loves HelsinkiElinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17629434012163295009noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-88754053521675360992011-12-12T00:03:00.001-08:002011-12-12T00:34:22.300-08:00Protoshop 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />saarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08305841976989885830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-27487362649496177772011-11-25T07:13:00.000-08:002011-11-25T07:14:59.408-08:00Restaurant Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_s-vZcDAXO6qt7P54KVV2ONTIxWtiwAApgDU4EcYp2G2PEpYHmTqSA4HreT_VIbxlJ1aY7wx2FXTLAMu4nW_j-v9ugFKdqnlSzG1UW1fQ5UTxH0aHjRPdM2b8BUgDHAyRTLe1RTt-iu9d/s1600/happy6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_s-vZcDAXO6qt7P54KVV2ONTIxWtiwAApgDU4EcYp2G2PEpYHmTqSA4HreT_VIbxlJ1aY7wx2FXTLAMu4nW_j-v9ugFKdqnlSzG1UW1fQ5UTxH0aHjRPdM2b8BUgDHAyRTLe1RTt-iu9d/s1600/happy6.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Last Saturday we took part in <a href="http://www.ravintolapaiva.com/en/">Restaurant day</a>, a day on which people are encouraged to open pop-up restaurants for one day. The idea is to celebrate food and restaurant culture and to have fun in (and with) the city. Our office was transformed into a thai lunch restaurant called Happy Start. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Jaakko from our office has spent a good portion of his life in Asia so to him thai cooking is home cooking (his childhood stories typically start with something like: “Once when I ran away from home into the jungle”). Jaakko’s sister Johanna was recruited as co-cook, Klaus and I waited on tables and Johanna’s daughter Sonja was the barista. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Rules and regulations are a big thing in Finland. You can’t even put a live candle on a child’s birthday cake at the daycare place because it might set off a fire. Actually you can’t bring a homemade cake either because of course there would immediately be food poisoning. So what they have is industrial cookies and a LED candle. How deeply, deeply depressing is that? So of course it is a complete miracle that Restaurant day is allowed to happen. But for some happy reason the authorities seem to be ok with it. We even had a health inspector as one of our customers. Ok, she was from Jaakko’s dog park scene, but still, she seemed really pleased. Sometimes all a city needs to do is not oppose, and interesting city culture will emerge all by itself. Without big masterplans. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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</span></div>Elinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17629434012163295009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-7812429263580935902011-11-10T12:27:00.000-08:002011-11-10T13:54:39.064-08:00Elina and Krista take Dublin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXjL79ZoHmKda0SyIsbRpix1m0l5VnKX838MIplZxEzVbkFAFqHGnUApmLkQdYGY0o_Al3JNx8c2q25NY8p-mPj9eirsFHVgDInCrJ26_Gvf8Wwdf8BNzijpxWxeQMCFz-D7ssTXYs29X/s1600/dublin_bollox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXjL79ZoHmKda0SyIsbRpix1m0l5VnKX838MIplZxEzVbkFAFqHGnUApmLkQdYGY0o_Al3JNx8c2q25NY8p-mPj9eirsFHVgDInCrJ26_Gvf8Wwdf8BNzijpxWxeQMCFz-D7ssTXYs29X/s1600/dublin_bollox.jpg" /></a></div>Last weekend Krista and I travelled to Dublin on official World Design Capital business. I think our hosts thought they were getting design dignitaries over. They actually said there were people who were afraid of us coming. While actually I think Krista and I are probably the least frightening people you will ever meet. Everyone kept complimenting the Helsinki bid book (with which the WDC year was won) and we kept disapointing them by admitting we had nothing what so ever to do with getting the year to Helsinki.<br />
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Earlier this year Krista, Saara and I were asked to curate an exhibition of international design for the world design capital year together with Design Forum Finland. We sent out a brief this summer to a lot of countries and about 20 responded with a proposal of what they would like to exhibit in Helsinki next year. Ireland's approach was perhaps the most intriguing. They said they were going to organize a design challenge to find a multidisciplinary team to create their proposal and they wanted us to come and be part of their jury.<br />
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The design challenge ran from saturday to sunday with 12 teams consisting of architects, designers, fashion designers, computer engineers and performance artists finding clever approaches to the theme "Provoke the Everyday".<br />
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By the way, I loved this portrait that Red and Grey commissioned of themselves.<br />
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But there are also a lot of things we have in common. We are both at the fringes of Europe. Envying but also at same time challenging our bigger, richer neighbour countries. We like to drink (although none of that last weekend mind you). Every irishman (woman) should have Finn who would patiently listen and every Finn should have an irishperson to keep up the conversation. Thank you Ali, Barry, Bob, Rory and everyone else! See you in Helsinki next year.<br />
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Women's magazines often have features about flowers. This used to baffle me. I got why you would want to read about fashion, food or celebrities but why would one want to look at pictures of flowers? But now I know. It's one of those things that you don't get until you're ready to take it all in. Another thing I never understood: why do people move perennial flowers from one place to another. Now I know that too. I moved a group of moon lilies five times this summer (I'm trusting google translate with the botanical vocabulary, hope it's going ok).<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHQtEDBGChqw08SA1mmM9-WXZszrQHYx0V8kWVco3bd59ir2Sv5yg3q07dx4yA_3LUhsJYBOs7dR-vfZgA0PQeSencisglRUkyCLy4NOaRg6-CIhOhKXPheu-ZhC_1c90XPHKm285ZC2A4/s1600/vallila2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHQtEDBGChqw08SA1mmM9-WXZszrQHYx0V8kWVco3bd59ir2Sv5yg3q07dx4yA_3LUhsJYBOs7dR-vfZgA0PQeSencisglRUkyCLy4NOaRg6-CIhOhKXPheu-ZhC_1c90XPHKm285ZC2A4/s1600/vallila2.jpg" /></a></div>These pictures are from the allotment gardens in Vallila. It is a densely built area of small summer houses each with their own little garden. There are several of these allotment gardens in Helsinki and they are open to the public during the daytime in the summer months. The one in Vallila was built in the 1930's. There is a strict policy on building and renovating so the houses look pretty much as they did 80 years ago. There is one house which has been kept as a <a href="http://www.vallilanspy.net/?p=museo">museum</a> and it gives visitors a chance at a closer look.<br />
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Best though is to befriend a person who has a house there and have them invite you to dinner. I can thoroughly recommend this alternative.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The photo above:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">THE DECIDER - Sanna Mander & Veera Kulju</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A candle holder, which will decide for you. In the end your answer is lit: "yes" or "no"?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;">More information of the products from <a href="http://www.imudesign.org/protoshop">Protoshop's website</a>.</div>Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721999438881042695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-28253909614396727412011-09-08T06:38:00.000-07:002011-09-08T06:38:24.437-07:00Self promotion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjWojs4dduXjV6qRmkEha_OMwT-NtYk3bTl2LIWbJ-IO4SWAGG9KOFB7xq8uonkASHV5RXFNm9OsGtVxtZVVeTCAhvzdGYNI5nMIBJkLSUqYKaCNNNZ5YSSnyZpNSf5YqAnY-22eEZkJ7/s1600/sulka_amos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjWojs4dduXjV6qRmkEha_OMwT-NtYk3bTl2LIWbJ-IO4SWAGG9KOFB7xq8uonkASHV5RXFNm9OsGtVxtZVVeTCAhvzdGYNI5nMIBJkLSUqYKaCNNNZ5YSSnyZpNSf5YqAnY-22eEZkJ7/s1600/sulka_amos.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We designed this reflector together with <a href="http://www.saararenvall.fi/">Saara</a> for a Finnish company called <a href="http://www.saintex.fi/en/index.html">Saintex</a>. Reflectors are life saving little devices especially in Finland where the winter months are very dark. We wanted to create something that men, women and children could equally make their own. We also wanted to make something that wouldn't scream "I'm a reflector" but that would be naturally jewellery-like. Since feathers have been used as jewellery since the beginning of time we wanted to do our own take on them. </span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">photos: Aino Huhtaniemi</div>Elinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17629434012163295009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-17275627498549811162011-08-31T12:13:00.000-07:002011-08-31T12:13:12.828-07:00The Egg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-JsFy3cdulek9aP38XeEe_UyxuaruJJrQ7qB8Stg01CNL3i1PTVM4SpXDwB6D7lHszJqNTG_p_jPt_XR1k0xzapXNKmyaoLGpKt4v1TJmgLSFPDkpYnRrm1sc0zrUiVOUEXKRDuIDdmdp/s1600/sukkula6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-JsFy3cdulek9aP38XeEe_UyxuaruJJrQ7qB8Stg01CNL3i1PTVM4SpXDwB6D7lHszJqNTG_p_jPt_XR1k0xzapXNKmyaoLGpKt4v1TJmgLSFPDkpYnRrm1sc0zrUiVOUEXKRDuIDdmdp/s1600/sukkula6.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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I have recently made a commitment to start biking again. This has resulted in 3 things:<br />
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1. I now arrive at meetings wet from either rain or sweat. At the same time my work partner <a href="http://www.from.fi/">Marika</a> has developed a habit of wearing Nanso night dresses as day dresses so we make an interesting combo.<br />
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3. We have had to resolve the problem of transporting two kids with one bike.<br />
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I wasn't always an evil car driver. I used to bike daily but then the child transportation problem came up. I did find the perfect solution, a dutch <a href="http://bakfiets.nl/eng/">Bakfiets</a> cargo bike, but it took me several years to realise that I wouldn't be making that kind of money in the foreseeable future. So we decided to lower our expectations and look at trailers which I think are mostly quite ugly.<br />
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It was my husband that spotted this<a href="http://www.lokari.fi/?s=t_turvasukkula&l=eng"> Lokari</a> trailer (Finnish design!) somewhere and it was the first of its kind that I felt I could live with. We hunted for it for a few days and found a used one for one tenth the price of a Bakfiets. So I'm very happy. We have nicknamed it "The Egg".<br />
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Apparently it's very comfortable as one passenger has fallen asleep. On warm days the top slides off.<br />
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The following are views from the Egg from the perspective of the passengers.<br />
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Elinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17629434012163295009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-78238326423036538262011-08-24T09:51:00.000-07:002011-08-24T09:51:09.758-07:00Happy in Hakaniemi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDM3umHsZRXdEad4QkCOph_MCJ4Bh4LdMykcLLXSpwxgHyZTTfSwm2gfMWcuNX7dMKzxT4BKt3nZMOzXvT9iALcWA41PpaGDeOmUOqIqNLVNz6mb2ViNk2YYQlcsxWCvulpfTxVm0_kjz1/s1600/tori_teltta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDM3umHsZRXdEad4QkCOph_MCJ4Bh4LdMykcLLXSpwxgHyZTTfSwm2gfMWcuNX7dMKzxT4BKt3nZMOzXvT9iALcWA41PpaGDeOmUOqIqNLVNz6mb2ViNk2YYQlcsxWCvulpfTxVm0_kjz1/s1600/tori_teltta.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Maybe one of the last warm days of summer. Coffee in a paper cup. An inquisitive six year old asking how many days we've known each other (2021 days). Three gentlemen playing finnish <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5odUiP_SqtM">evergreens</a>. The orange tents that are always the same. Manna porridge with butter at the <a href="http://fi-fi.facebook.com/pages/Kahvisiskot-Hakaniemen-tori/118588234825328">Kahvisiskot</a> tent when it get's cold. Hakaniemi market is my happy place.<br />
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Elinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17629434012163295009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-89734367462107798352011-08-12T02:34:00.000-07:002011-08-12T03:02:29.241-07:00Secrets of 'Southern Helsinki'<div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span><span><span lang="en-US">A few years ago, I guess it was in the 1900s, I worked in a project with a Finnish company. One of their staff members used the phrase 'Southern Helsinki' when referring to their manufacturing taking place in Estonia. I clearly remember his face when saying this. He really thought that he was cracking the best joke ever. I never found that funny, and it didn't get any better as he repeated it too many times (secret number 1.)</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span><span><span lang="en-US">This summer I went to <a href="http://www.parnu.ee/lang/eng/">Pärnu</a> for a few days with friends. Pärnu is a well-known spa city in Southern Estonia. It was my first time there and I have to say I fell in love with the place! It is an attractive, calm seaside city with beautiful long beaches - just a perfect place to recharge your batteries. </span></span><span>Only 1,5 hours from Tallin by car. It is time to finally forget Lanzarotte. </span><span><span lang="en-US">Pärnu is definitely the hidden gem of Northern Europe </span></span></span>(secret number 2)</p></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsBxQiXT0hkgPeRHpnAbNwenIyNQ2MGsEAqRl0ms9LWNZqHaKFw0PXRRWhXm_dLr4HKg_xRHMlR7W01Hadxi938PlL9o6PJDasqKUjx1Wl75onJrExx4fp-bjMPqeFrlbLm-verEjdcx7T/s1600/66481.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsBxQiXT0hkgPeRHpnAbNwenIyNQ2MGsEAqRl0ms9LWNZqHaKFw0PXRRWhXm_dLr4HKg_xRHMlR7W01Hadxi938PlL9o6PJDasqKUjx1Wl75onJrExx4fp-bjMPqeFrlbLm-verEjdcx7T/s400/66481.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639902760804275714" /></a><div>
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Three months in to this project and we finally get to design in the traditional sense of the word. I spent last week in Berlin at the DMY festival. The festival was very much like Berlin itself - young, experimental and unconventional. They had a finnish focus this year which resulted in a mass invasion of finnish design and designers. I am only able to scratch the my surface here in my official report.<br />
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The festival took place for the second time at Tempelhof, the famous ex-airport, and may I just take a moment to say how jealous I am of this space. Huge, empty, beautifully lit space practically in the middle of the city. Maybe we could dismantle a hall and ship it to Helsinki.<br />
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First up: <a href="http://www.jessepietila.com/">Jesse Pietilä</a> seen through his Sheer Wall. Because we promised "design, tips & secrets" up there in the header, I will now tell you a secret. Jesse is actually not Jesse, he's Markku. I only know that because when he was applying to study at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, I was the student monitoring the entrance exams and I took notice of him because he was consistently getting the highest points.<br />
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Salakauppa (Secret shop) is a super nice project, and a <a href="http://www.com-pa-ny.com/shop/">real shop</a> run by Aamu Song and Johan Olin. They have scouted around Finland and Korea for small companies making great products and have done collaborations with these companies. Here an icelandic designer with very stylish stockings is modeling their latest design - a two heeled shoe.<br />
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Honorary Finn <a href="http://tickclip.de/">Jakob Schenk</a> was showing his diploma project from the University of Art and Design (It's really called Aalto University nowadays but I have difficulty adapting). It's called Ticks and it's a pair of "table clips" with which you can turn any piece of board into a table. So clever, and that's why it's going to be a part of <a href="http://www.imudesign.org/protoshop/2010/fi/muotoilijat-2010/">Protoshop</a> in September.<br />
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Another honorary Finn <a href="http://www.satoshiyoshida.com/">Satoshi Yoshida</a> and his equally clever book shelf. It's very narrow, only about half the depth of a normal book shelf because of the angled partitions.<br />
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<a href="http://www.raivio-kulju.com/">Päivi Raivio and Veera Kulju</a> make these wonderfully dark textiles out of discarded leather coats. Here Veera is cutting the leather bits into smaller strips. I got to try as well and it was quite therapeutic - they should sell a kit where the finishing is done by the buyer.<br />
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Pinch by <a href="http://www.imudesign.org/protoshop/2010/en/products-2010/pinch-en/">Mikko Koskinen and Miko Laakso</a> is a lighting element where the clips become small spotlights for photos or messages when attached to the rail.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mikkolaakkonen.com/">Mikko Laakkonen</a> and <a href="http://www.aaltoaalto.com/">Klaus Aalto</a> have similar taste in shoes (secret number 2).<br />
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I also had an own satellite exhibition in Berlin with the above mentioned Klaus Aalto but believe it or not - took not a single photo (zero). I even gave a talk at DMY underlining the importance of remembering to document everything well but failed to take notice myself. However, some photos and even words can be found <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150192334145369.305737.250043545368">here</a> courtesy of <a href="http://www.minimumblog.com/">Minimum blog</a>.Elinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17629434012163295009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-1252228509401316562011-05-16T11:08:00.000-07:002011-05-16T11:08:21.531-07:00Frugality week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WBZ9SCdwlgSa_uReDNgD_RAmUH6tXiKteMvh4vPS3gSfjsUVmAUpGAVKNGKJUuqPbLXcWHM5veITWMyaW8lGgrkUpvDZfgYUDvw5_ywJlgxYkePWrwCe9s4yBvt6b62BGH5SyIzHMjZR/s1600/nettle5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WBZ9SCdwlgSa_uReDNgD_RAmUH6tXiKteMvh4vPS3gSfjsUVmAUpGAVKNGKJUuqPbLXcWHM5veITWMyaW8lGgrkUpvDZfgYUDvw5_ywJlgxYkePWrwCe9s4yBvt6b62BGH5SyIzHMjZR/s1600/nettle5.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Last week I heard on the radio that it was frugality week (nuukuusviikko) so I decided we would maximize the challenge and eat for free. So off we went my children and I looking for nettles in our semi-urban neigbourhood. I have a book called "101 uses for stinging nettle" and I don't remember what the other 99 uses are, but you can eat it and you can make a very potent fertilizer by soaking them in water. Nettle tastes a lot like spinach except better and it has a lot of iron. I've previously used it dried and sprinkled in just about anything but I'd never made the big nettle classic: nettle soup. To get the other needed ingredients we decided to gather empty bottles and return them for the recycling deposit. There is a big park near our home with people engaging in a Finnish summer pastime called pussikalja (drinking beer from a plastic bag outdoors) so we were sure we would find bottles, but we had bad luck. It was a few days after May day and the park had been thoroughly emptied of all trash. So as we couldn't cheat and use money, we called my sister and asked her to bring all her empty bottles to a near by supermarket and trade them in for the missing ingredients.<br />
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My sister acted as head chef so I cannot give a precise recipe. Basically the nettles are boiled in water, pureed and enriched with cream (we chose to boil the nettles and change the water once because nettles grow in very fertile soil and in cities soil is often made fertile by dogs).<br />
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When we were leaving my sister showed us some ancient graffiti on the rocks near Kaivopuisto. This one was from 1889, supposedly by P.Leander. Super nice. And proof that you can always learn new things about your home city.Elinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17629434012163295009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-72061640973494156392011-04-28T13:17:00.000-07:002011-04-28T13:17:46.936-07:00Särä in Lemi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwl3htvuprIncC9owgzt6PCDlkftcGC0_koTFO3wKjRWAhbQH3DUp18iXE-sH4oKxc0zDSVi1HOhf8ulRsV4iD9CgK5Lrj9nlH8FaDZ6QjuVa1JoNBQ-P2qwPfA4QO_2jz7o6GoU1_DUvz/s1600/lemi_po%25CC%2588yta%25CC%2588.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwl3htvuprIncC9owgzt6PCDlkftcGC0_koTFO3wKjRWAhbQH3DUp18iXE-sH4oKxc0zDSVi1HOhf8ulRsV4iD9CgK5Lrj9nlH8FaDZ6QjuVa1JoNBQ-P2qwPfA4QO_2jz7o6GoU1_DUvz/s1600/lemi_po%25CC%2588yta%25CC%2588.jpg" /></a><br />
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In Finland we have a thing called kotiseutumuseo (roughly translated as home area museum). Every rural village seems to have one and they are fascinating places for people who have a thing for folklore (note that I am very easily moved by everything related to folklore, 95% of people could find kotiseutumuseos pointless). <a href="http://www.museosara.fi/">The museum in Lemi</a> is especially fascinating because they have upheld a 1000 year old tradition of preparing a dish called särä. Särä consists of lamb and potatoes slowly cooked on wooden platter in a wood heated oven for up to eight hours. The only seasoning in salt.<br />
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The museum offers särä on certain set dates which can be found on their website. For groups of 10 people or more its possible to organise a private feast. There is also <a href="http://www.sarapirtti.fi/">another restaurant</a> offering särä in this very very small town, but I'm completely biased towards the museum restaurant. Lemi is about a 2 hour drive from Helsinki. In Michelin terms I would definately say it's worth a detour for the overall gesamtkustwerk appeal.<br />
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My two favourite things in Lemi (beside the food) were this beautiful ryijy (a traditional rug-like textile) and the fence below. The fence is also a very traditional design which I love because:<br />
1. you can use thinned out wood from the forest to make it<br />
2. there is very little work that has to be done to the wood<br />
3. the fence will look better the less measure (unevenness and asymmetry look better)<br />
4. after having served you well you can heat the sauna with it.<br />
I think I want to make one.<br />
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When I was a child my parents took me to see a lot of vineyards in France. Although this does not sound like the worst of fortunes, I developed some kind of trauma towards all those vineyard parking lots. It's possible that my children will develop a similar relationship to fleamarkets.<br />
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It can be difficult to make a really great find in Helsinki fleamarkets. For the best in second hand treasures, one should head for the small towns. Salo is a small town roughly half way between Helsinki and Turku. On a street called Raitalankatu in an industrial area you'll find three big fleamarkets in a neat row. The first is called <a href="http://www.suurkirppis.com/">Salon seudun suurkirppis</a> (aptly translates as The Great Fleamarket of Salo). It's so big that you can go in thinking you need size 34 rubber boots and a bread knife and probably come out with both.<br />
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I have a soft spot for anti-design. When something is really wrong it magically becomes more than right. See exhibit "A" above: the cafe of Salon suurkirppis. In the summer this is a kind of terrace. The inside part also serves pulla and ice cream in winter.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Next to Suurkirppis is <a href="http://basaari.webs.com/">Kirppis Basaari</a> which sells furniture in addition to smaller things. These lappish boots were quite nice (size 43, they might still be there). Last time we went to Salo we happened to be there with a van so we didn't have transportation worries to get in the way of our shopping spree. My husband bought two record players (he had asked our six year old son how many record players a person should own and he had said 24 so now we have 8). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">In addition to a cupboard, a training bike and some children's spring gear we found two Pippi Longstocking story cassettes (our car is from the 90ies) and this plastic head for 1 euro! (the fencing helmet is model's own). My husband also fell in love with an old piano but even the salesperson thought we would never be able to carry it anywhere by ourselves. But after three days of long distance yearning, he called Kirppis Basaari today and arranged to have it transported. He is also slightly opposed to this post saying that you "shouldn't give away your best mushrooming places".</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Helsinki is not at its best in March. The city is filled with grey piles of what used to be snow but now is 50% ice and 50% gravel. BUT when you leave the streets and head to the sea, it is still quite beautiful.<br />
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Helsinki is surrounded on three sides by the sea which of course in winter turns into ice. This changes the city because suddenly you are able to walk routes which don't exist in the summer and you see everything from a different perspective.<br />
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Yesterday we went for a walk on the ice with some friends and had coffee at Cafe Regatta. It's a small place - a one room cabin - with a very maximalist attitude. Both inside and out the design philosophy has clearly been more-is-more and it results in a strangely inviting atmosphere. It's open practically always, you can grill your own sausage and you can watch the winter swimmers from the terrace. What more could one want from a cafe experience.<br />
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Oh yes, and they have a thing called napakelkka. The picture tells it all. Remember to bring cash when you visit Regatta, they don't take cards.Elinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17629434012163295009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74193823785792127.post-58783632100400571042011-03-04T01:07:00.000-08:002011-03-17T04:34:38.577-07:00Hello<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9LIK8nMwDkz32KM6ZXlV6FaUI8sQYWYaAeikFCbQJXxHUfj7szDb_jQthVkry7-C72gGRZBJKGeDYHwDq7jgXNXOnwS2KMLfXo-Y43Se4t4aZpqSd4O6REnH-9xKplRT6pGWZPgIhLVY7/s1600/dogmeetsbear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9LIK8nMwDkz32KM6ZXlV6FaUI8sQYWYaAeikFCbQJXxHUfj7szDb_jQthVkry7-C72gGRZBJKGeDYHwDq7jgXNXOnwS2KMLfXo-Y43Se4t4aZpqSd4O6REnH-9xKplRT6pGWZPgIhLVY7/s1600/dogmeetsbear.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hello! We are Elina, Krista and Saara and in 2002 we came up with the idea of Imu design, a platform for young finnish designers to showcase their work. Over the past years Imu has grown from a hobby to part of our work. We now produce an annual exhibition of new designs called Protoshop for the Habitare design fair together with the Finnish Fair Corporation. The photos below were taken around Helsinki in 2002 for the first Imu exhibition.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">PS. We just realised that Imu will be 10 years old in 2012 so that’s one more reason to do something new with ourselves!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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