Taste & form
13 May – 30 Sep 2012 Granary, Fiskars
The time-honoured Granary at Fiskars originally stored grain. This summer it will display inspiring design on all its three floors, featuring the objects and spaces, everyday aspects and special occasions of culinary culture. Statements, table-settings, cookware, sustainable development and visual art.
The exhibition begins on the bridge leading into the Granary. Inside, visitors will encounter experiences, spaces and concepts of different kinds, products and special events.
Taste & Form will include special additional events, such as Bistro on the ground floor, theme days devoted to tea and coffee, products and an apple-pressing facility.
List of the additional events.
At Fiskars, even baked goods are design products. The picnic basket on sale is of local design, and visitors can fill it and enjoy the fare in the unique setting of Fiskars village.
Exhibition participants
Martti Aiha, Regina Alter, Upi Anttila, Soili Arha, Ernst Billgren, Charlotta Boucht, Tuuli Burman, Kirsti Doukas, Saara Ekström, Marko Escartin, Hannele Grönlund, Martí Guixé, Gullstén – Inkinen, Simo Heikkilä & Teija Isohauta, Erja Huovila, Jukka Isotalo, Sade Kahra, Brian Keaney, Erika Kelter, Pekka Kumpula, Kati Tuominen-Niittylä, Kirsi Kivivirta, Harri Koskinen, Barbro Kulvik, Jouko Kärkkäinen, Nathalie Lahdenmäki, Stefan Lindfors, Sunichi Maekawa, Outi Martikainen, Antto Melasniemi, Mikko Merz, Rudi Merz, Nobuho Miya, Hisako Mizuno, Camilla Moberg, Jukka Mäkelä, Naoto Niidome, Taina Pailos, Leena Peltonen, Meri Peltonen, Tuulia Penttilä, Milvi Pesari, Heikki Rahikainen, Tiina Ripatti, Perttu Rista, Kristian Saarikorpi, Anneli Sainio, Rutsuko Sakata, Markku Salo, Lea Sarasjoki, Mika Sarasjoki, Tuttu Sillanpää, Antti Siltavuori, Howard Smith, Mikael Spitz, Miisa Säilä, Riitta Talonpoika, Tauno Tarna, Ari Turunen, Tiina Tuunanen, Heli Valaja, Viivi Varesvuo, Kari Virtanen, Karin Widnäs, Yoshimasa Yamada and Katja Öhrnberg.
We gratefully acknowledge support from
Fiskars Corporation, the Sophie von Julin Foundation, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Svenska Kulturfonden Foundation, Uusimaa Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Adesin/Private Case, Demmers Teehaus, Fiskarsin Laatupuu, FT-Transport Oy Ab, the Hotel-Restaurant Fiskars Wärdshus, Kaffecentralen Finland Oy Ab, Lapin Kulta, Maku-lehti, Olof Ekman Oy Ab, the City of Raasepori, Restaurant Kuparipaja and Salon seudun ammattiopisto.
Exhibition working group
The members of the exhibition working group are: industrial designer Barbro Kulvik (chairperson), ceramist Anneli Sainio, journalist Anna Paljakka, interior architect Lea Sarasjoki (exhibition architect) and exhibition secretary Catherine Aiha.
Further information
Catherine Aiha, tel. 040 5667578, c.aiha (at) kopper.fi
The office of the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars, tel. 019 277 7500, onoma (at) onoma.org, onoma.org
FiskarsInfo, tel. 019 277 7504, fiskars.info (at) fiskars.fi, fiskarsvillage.fi
