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Place of Birth: Viipurin maalaiskunta, Finland
About Yrjö Kukkapuro
- Yrjö Kukkapuro (born April 6, 1933) is a Finnish interior architect and furniture designer.
- His career started in the 1950s while studying in the Academy of Design in Helsinki.
- Kukkapuro's most famous model is called Karuselli (carousel) and it belongs to the collection of major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- It was also nominated as the most comfortable chair in the world by The New York Times in 1974.Kukkapuro is married to graphic artist Irmeli Kukkapuro née Salminen since 1954.
- The couple have built a home studio in Kauniainen in 1968.
- The building designed by Yrjö Kukkapuro and engineer Eero Paloheimo resembles pop-art style.
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