Reading Room

Welcome to the reading room. Have a seat and leaf through news, stories, interviews and anecdotes about our products, its designers and the people around the world who brought Artek into their lives.

Finding strength in fragility

Xavier Mañosa, the designer and maker of Tiili Collection for Artek, has been extruding clay since he was 12 years old, when he was an after-school helper in his parents’ ceramics workshop in San Cugat, Spain. But...

Friendly alterations: ‘Hackability of the Stool’ by Daisuke Motogi

Tokyo based architect Daisuke Motogi’s research project and exhibition “Hackability of the Stool” features 100 ideas for altering Stool 60, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1933. This most elemental of furniture...

Ecological Shifts, Artek and Formafantasma

Thinking about ‘Cambio’ – Formafantasma’s exhibition-cum-manifesto on timber industry governance – I’m reminded of the Austrian American designer Herbert Bayer and his thoughts on good exhibition design....

Kori Collection: a skilful interplay of direct and indirect light

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Finding strength in fragility

Friendly alterations: ‘Hackability of the Stool’ by Daisuke Motogi

Ecological Shifts, Artek and Formafantasma

Archive

Elegance Updated

Perfect Imperfection

The Poetry of Light

Atelier Chairs for a good cause

Designing for the world

So far and yet so close

Blue Gold from BUAISOU

The secret world of COMPANY

Jo Nagasaka’s ColoRing meets Artek classics

Cherry blossom returns to Japan

Pieces of Aalto - A conversation between friends

Kiulu Bench - from bathhouse to sauna, and beyond

Suspended Illumination - Pendant Lights AMA500 & A201

Chair 611: The Staying Power of a Modern Icon

Buy Now Keep Forever

Modernism Transformed

A fresh look for the Restaurant Savoy

The Elemental Simplicity of Rope

Tung Chiang: "My favourite Aalto chair - now also Aalto’s favourite."

Felix Burrichter: "An Artek-TikTok love letter."

Nobuyuki Hamada: "I can feel the former owner's excitement."

Linda Bergroth: “My love affair with rescue chairs is still going strong.”

Something Fantastic: "To us, it's a chair in the making."

Johanna Gullichsen: "I have no intention of letting it go just yet."

The quest for a universal wooden chair

Garden as a Room

A hook for all seasons

Petter Eklund: “The chair began to whisper to me”

Tracing Architectural Patterns

Built to Last: The Aesthetics of Utility

Blending the past and present

Maharam Stool 60 edition

The Aaltos at Villa Mairea: A More Human Light

The Compact Home Office

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