JUUREVA's designers

Marianne Friberg
KARU design series / metal-hemp textiles

This artistic handicraft worker from Harjavalta makes rough and aromatic tar hemp textiles for both practical and artistic uses. In most of her work she also uses hand-forged metals.

Contact:
Phone: +358 (0)40 442 5788
mano (at) luukku.com
www.karudesign.com

Terhi Laitila
WIIRU & HAPSU series / felt products

This designer/felt maker from Rauma makes decorative textiles with felt that are practical and appeal to youthful tastes.

Contact:
Phone: +358 (0)40 553 3606
laitila.terhi (at) gmail.com
www.tukutuku.fi

Sirpa Luukkonen
HEINÄ series / ceramics

This ceramics artisan from Huittinen creates high quality individual ceramics for furnishing and artistic purposes in the old Huittinen dairy.

Contact:
Phone: +358 (0)44 556 7697
sirpa.luukkonen (at) dnainternet.net
www.sirpaluukkonen.fi

Iro Mäntykorpi
IRONIA series /
hand-forged products

This smith from Pori is a master with a wide range of blacksmith skills from contemporary decorative work to making the most traditional tools and scythes. He sells his products and carries out his work in the Vähärauma district of Pori.

Contact:
Phone: +358 (0)44 363 3874
iro (at) ahjonakka.com
www.ahjonakka.com

Annamari Salmi
KOIVU series /
printed textiles

This graphic designer from Pori and soon to be Master of Arts designs, amongst other things, graphic prints onto a range of linen textile products. She also sells her products in her A2 design online shop.

Contact:
Phone: +358 (0)40 509 2117
annamari (at) a2design.fi
www.a2design.fi

Mari Syrén
YYTERI series / jewellery

This jewellery designer creates both unique and short-run production jewellery, drawing on, amongst other things, the antiquity of Eura and the nature of the Satakunta region.  In her jewellery she uses and combines silver with a wide range of other materials.

Contact:
Phone: +358 (0)50 352 2135
mari.syren (at) gmail.com
www.marisyren.net

Marko Timonen
LENTO series / woodwork

After many years as an entrepreneur, this carpenter from Pori has been engaged elsewhere for a few years. Currently he is once again planning to start up his own company focusing mainly on his high quality and finished product range.

Contact:
Phone: +358 (0)400 481 823
marko.timonen (at) puuseppa.fi
www.puuseppa.fi

Jan Torstensson ja Tuulikki Tähtivaara-Torstensson
KANTTI series /
recycled glass

Using the most ecological methods, this pair that quietly moved to Kiikoinen shapes recycled glass into both practical and artistic glass products. The couple is restoring an old service station into a glasswork studio and showroom store.

Contact:
Phone: +358 (0)400 154 158
jan.torstensson (at) lasistudio.fi
www.lasistudio.fi

Helena Vienola
PERHE HIRVINEN /
hand-crafted bone products

This silversmith working in Kiikoinen shapes bone and silver into, amongst other things, jewellery and cutlery. At the moment she is also interested in combining copper with bone. She runs a small corner shop in the old Tallipiha stable yards in Tampere.

Contact:
Phone: +358 (0)50 575 7193
helena.vienola (at) hopealuu.fi
www.hopealuu.fi