Ilmari Tapiovaara

Ilmari Tapiovaara ( born September 7, 1914 in Tampere, Finland, † 31 January 1999) was a Finnish interior architect and designer.

Tapiovaara considered as an important link in international design of the 20th century. Among other things, he worked in the offices of Alvar Aalto in London or Le Corbusier in Paris - to his students in turn include Eero Aarnio and Yjrö Kukkapuro. As a guest professor at the famous Illinois Institute of Technology Tapiovaara also had close contact with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Life

Ilmari Tapiovaara studied industrial design and interior design at the Institute of Industrial Design, the Taideteollisuuskeskuskoulu, in Helsinki. After graduating, he worked in the Paris office architecture by Le Corbusier, before he took over as artistic director at the furniture factory Asko, in Lahti, Finland. In 1950 he founded together with his wife, the architect Annikki Tapiovaara a design studio in which he henceforth worked as a freelance designer. 1950-1953 he taught at the University of Art and Design, Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu, and was a visiting professor at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. From 1559 to 1968 Tapiovaara was on the board of the Finnish Association for Design, Ornamo, where he was named an honorary member in 1978. 1965-1969 he taught interior design at the University of Technology in Helsinki. From 1974-1975 he was a consultant on design and production of export furniture in Mauritius for UNIDO ( United Nations Industrial Development Organization).

Life's work

Ilmari Tapiovaaras put his artistic focus on the design and development of an exemplary multi-purpose chair. His seating furniture should be functional and dismantled. He developed chairs that quickly decompose into its constituent parts or stack and transport. Well-known examples are his stack chairs Lukki I ( 1952), for Lukkiseppo, and Wilhelmiina (1959). Among his most famous works of the Domus chair, which Pirkka furniture, stool or the Tale of Mademoiselle armchair, manufactured by Aero Design and sold on the German market by Markanto heard. Ilmari Tapiovaara but not only worked as a furniture designer, but was also in the field of graphics, photography, interior design and architecture creative. He designed lamps, glassware, stainless steel cutlery, stereos, carpets, textiles, wallpapers and toys. In the period 1951-1960 Ilmari Tapiovaara received for his designs of six gold medals from the Milan Triennale - more than any other designer. In 1971 he was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Design.

  • Interior Designer
  • Designer
  • Finn
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 1999
  • Man
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