Salme Setälä, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Salme Setälä

Finnish architect

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1894

Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Date of Death: 06-Oct-1980

Profession: writer, architect

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Salme Setälä (in 1919–1930 Cornér; 18 January 1894, Helsinki — 6 October 1980, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and writer.
She graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1917.
She worked in a number of architecture offices.
In the early 1950s she made several study trips in Europe.
After that she was hired in the government office for land-use planning.
She planned the land use for over 30 areas in Finland.Setälä's main interest was interior design and furniture.
She also wrote books, both fiction and non-fiction.
Her parents were Eemil Nestor Setälä and Helmi Krohn.
In 1919–1930 she was married to the journalist Frithiof Cornér.