Saturday, April 12, 2008

Finnish tutor

(Soundtrack: Yo La Tengo "Don't Have To Be So Sad"
This is a bench designed for the administration building in a University of Helsinki lobby in 1936-1937 by Arttu Brummer-Korvenkontio (1891-1951). Every element of the bench indicates its purpose as a place of rest. Some hard surface, straight edge benches found their way into the drawings of a university lobby renovation I've been working on, despite my red-flag waving, so I am quite envious of this little number.

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