The annual Habitare fair, Finland’s largest furniture, interior decoration and design trade event, puts on display a wide variety of products and ideas in its 2010 edition, blending commercial products with prototypes and concepts, and incorporating sustainability and contemporary art.
The newly elected chairman of International Design Foundation, the organization that will implement the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 project, is Tero Vähäkylä. The project’s and the foundation’s director is Pekka Timonen, who has assumed duties.
Helsinki Design Week 2010 gathers design professionals and the general public together around the theme of storytelling. The verbalizations and visuals unravel the meaning of design in people’s everyday lives.
Helsinki Festival 2010 seeks to collide art with audiences during the two week-run of this annual festival, the largest and most diverse event on Finland’s cultural calendar.
