Designer of the Month in Design Forum Shop
Design collective Rehti's the designer of the month in September.
Designer of the Month is a Design Forum Shop campaign that will bring out 12 young and talented Finnish designers during the year. In September it's design collective Rehti.
The early 2000s brought to Finland design collectives consisting of a few designers. One of these is called Rehti, its members being Mikko Laakkonen (b. 1974), Aleksi Penttilä (b. 1972), Mika Tolvanen (b. 1975), Jari-Petri Voutilainen (b. 1971) and Sami Laine (b. 1977). The collective was born rather spontaneously in 2004: the designers were working in the same studio and got the idea of participating in the Furniture Fair in Milan next spring.
A shared studio and like-mindedness bind the designers together, as well as a showroom nowadays in downtown Helsinki. Each is working with his own project, usually traditional product design, but coffee-table conversations, ideas and criticism flow freely. Sometimes also joint projects, e.g. fairs are prepared collaboratively.
Latva coat rack is designed by Mikko Laakkonen and has recently come on the market. On its branches it is easy to hang things. Its shape works even when empty: alone as a piece of sculpture, several in a row as a room divider.
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