Modern Furniture Design Master: Jyri Kukkapuro

Author: Zhou Haoming
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: This book is a design collection by the master Juukapallo. The author began working at the Juukapallo Design Office in 1997, and the content is entirely based on first-hand materials. The author's intention is not only to showcase the design achievements of Juukapallo over the years but also to make it rich in educational value. The book is suitable for architects, designers, design history scholars, as well as students and teachers in architecture and design departments of higher education institutions.
Juukapallo, one of the contemporary world's furniture designers, fully embodies his open-mindedness and innovative spirit in his works. He is a significant inheritor of the Scandinavian functionalist tradition. His admiration for natural materials and structural thinking has become a reliable guarantee for his bold innovations. His furniture designs excel both aesthetically and functionally, with graphic elements and plastic characteristics interwoven to form a logical and harmonious whole. Juukapallo also handcrafts models of his works, making him an excellent advocate of the eternal tradition of craftsmanship.
Juukapallo's designs always begin with a systematic examination of the physiological needs of products. Therefore, his solutions to the issue of "seating" in public buildings are first-class. As a designer focused on seating for practical workplaces, Juukapallo is fully justified in being hailed as a "design master." In the establishment of ecological design concepts, Juukapallo also plays a pivotal role. Additionally, as an educator, Juukapallo places great emphasis on nurturing young designers, and his influence is far-reaching in both time and geography. He has transformed exhibition art into an emotional comprehensive art, thereby giving new meaning to the principles of exhibition architecture design.
Professor Juukapallo's works are highly sought after and collected by major museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.