 芬蘭AVARTE OY 公司成立于1980年,是北歐最著名的家具商之一,產品來自當代頂尖家具設計大師約里奧·庫卡波羅(YRJO KUKKAPURO)為首的設計團隊.
庫卡波羅是一位堅定的功能主義者, 50年代,他是第一位將人體工學引入家具設計的設計師;他的作品簡潔、質樸、高雅、結構暴露,充分體現北歐簡約風格; 他將生態學/人體工學/美學列為家具設計要素,希望產品可靠/耐用/舒適/環保
在漫長的設計生涯中,庫卡波羅的設計風格從不追風,從不逐流,在許多曇花一現般的流行風格前,庫卡波羅的作品更顯歷久彌新;今天,庫卡波羅的早期作品依然在全球范圍生產流通,而且就像五、六十年前一樣,充滿現代感。
庫卡波羅教授的足跡遍布世界范圍,他的作品14次被包括紐約現代藝術博物館、德國VITRA設計博物館等永久收藏,1963-1980年期間,以校長和客席教授身份施教多個國家的設計院校（包括中國江南大學、南京林業大學等）,1980年至今,講學于世界各地,并堅持創作設計,每年都有新的設計作品推出。
Timeless furniture
The core of Avarte’s collection are the classics designed by the company’s principal designer, Yrjo Kukkapuro in the 1960’s, for example Karuselli, Remmi, Ateljee and Funktus chairs. One of Kukkapuro’s favourite sayings, “Does it make any sense to design a chair which is not good to sit on.” describes Avarte’s love for ergonomic furniture. Kukkapuro has also states that a designer should be an artist, a doctor and an engineer in the same time. Kukkapuro’s timeless pieces are displayed for example in New York MoMA’s and London Victoria and Albert Museum’s permanent collections. Today, Avarte collaborates also with other leading designers like Mikko Paakkanen, the designer of the much praised Nietos-chair, who was nominated as the Young Designer of the year 2006.
Our culture: humanistic, Open, Innovative, down-to-earth.
Our vision: To foster culture in the products and sell products based on the culture, to provide the unique surroundings and to become the most popular furniture brand.
Projects worldwide
AVARTE has participated in many interior design projects worldwide. We have supplied furniture to several projects designed by famous architects, such as cultural centres, city halls, offices of many international corporations, universities and other institutes, banks and hospitals.
Modern classics
For example the following museums have taken furniture designed by Yrj? Kukkapuro for AVARTE to their permanent collections: New York: Museum of Modern Art, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Helsinki museums of industrial art, and the National Museum in Stockholm.
Environment
Rational use of materials and timeless design combined with the high quality, durability and long lifespan of furniture is the most essential factor for our environment. A piece of furniture stresses the environment at the most when it is taken to the dump. AVARTE furniture are made for long term use and their lifespan is prolonged by the availability of replacement parts, which are easy to change.
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Designer:Simo Heikkila
"My furniture design is an ongoing experimental process whereby a unique and an industrial product compete.
Sometimes the interval between the two may be infinitely short. Yet in the appropriate context, even the results of spontaneous experimentation may gain mainstream popularity…then, the experiment has succeeded in opening eyes and enlightening the mind."
"Furniture design is a slow process, which in the case of the individual designer, evolves in small steps.
Part of the process involves the so-called laboratory work not taken into production as such, yet which retains the details of life, a structural idea or a visual concept.
My work is dominated by a curiosity centered on the dialogue between material and structure." |
