A generational shift at Haimi led to the spinoff of a new company, Avarte, with which Mr. Kukkapuro was also associated, a relationship that continued until 2013. Image The 1982 Experiment chair ...

Yrjö Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish designer whose postmodern style of chairs graced waiting rooms, offices and living rooms across Finland as well as collections in the Museum of Modern Art in ...

Yrjö Kukkapuro, the Finnish furniture and product designer who dreamt up ideas "until the very end" over more than 70 years of creating, has passed away at his home in Kauniainen at the age of 91.

Yrjö Kukkapuro, celebrated Finnish designer known for his Karuselli and Experiment chairs, passed away on Saturday, February 8 at the age of 91. The designer and architect was at his home just ...

HELSINKI (AP) — Yrjö Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish designer whose postmodern style of chairs graced waiting rooms, offices and living rooms across Finland as well as collections in the Museum ...

His death on Saturday at his home outside Helsinki was confirmed by his daughter, Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom, in an email to The Associated Press on Sunday, as well as a statement from Studio Kukkapuro ...

Yrjö Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish interior architect and furniture designer whose postmodern style of chairs graced waiting rooms, offices and living rooms across Finland as well as collections ...

Finnish designer, interior architect and professor Yrjö Kukkapuro has passed away at the age of 91, a statement by his studio has said. ⁠ Kukkapuro, whose career spanned seven decades ...