now | here - the sin of extravagance

There is no drink but champagne. 

There is no cabaret but one.

Saturday night, The Champagne Circus

I can't imagine being anywhere else.

now | here - HDW LIVE

Helsinki Design Week LIVE is kind of a miracle. Shows from Vuokko and Tuomas Laitinen at the same event? Heikki Salonen and Samuji? Someone has worked some tremendous magic behind the scenes.

Not to mention the R/H show and DJ set, not to mention the dulcet tones of Anna Järvinen and Mirel Wagner. See it to believe it.

now | here - Design Market

Five reasons to never, ever miss the Design Market:

1. Amazing design bargains
2. New clothes
3. The designers who bring their clothes and design items there are the ones who care the most about building their business. Know these names, and you know the future of design and fashion in Finland.
4. The chance to meet the designers personally.
5. Amazing design bargains and new clothes

The Design Market will be held at the Cable Factory on the 10th and 11th of September.

now | here - Fennicize your Space

If you wander into Lumi's new flagship store downtown, you might as well be wandering in the Finnish countryside picking berries. A forest of Finnish ash trees hold up the bags, and the shelves are lined with Finnish elk. As you enter the shop, you rub against an elk skin curtain holding back the chill Finnish winds. Watch out for bears!

This is all the fault of the log-building artists and designers at Mestariwerstas and my WoodLabo, and the traditional elk and reindeer tanners Kokkolan Nahka. These guys will Finn you up.

Stumps at the back of the Lumi forest, as drawn by Bruno Beaugrand