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Read more: Vaarnii at 3 Days of Design 2024
Vaarnii at 3 Days of Design 2024
Vaarnii returns to 3daysofdesign with its collection of brutal Finnish furniture and a story of pine evolution. Solid pine, finest pine veneer,...Read more -
Read more: Altor-backed Network of Design partners up with the Finnish disruptor Vaarnii
Altor-backed Network of Design partners up with the Finnish disruptor Vaarnii
Network of Design (NOD) launched in 2020 to bring carefully selected Nordic design to every corner of the world. Today, NOD is proud to announce our investment in Vaarnii, a furniture company that makes brutally sophisticated objects from a single raw material; Finnish pine. All made by local craftspeople and workshops in Finland.
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Read more: For The Love Of The Wild
For The Love Of The Wild
Few contemporary designers can claim such a consistent and covetable signature as Faye Toogood, although many might like to. Faye describes the guiding principles of her multidisciplinary practice as: sculpture, landscape and materiality. The Peace Outdoor Lounge Chair and Footstool designed for Vaarnii bring these elements together seamlessly, with special emphasis paid to the natural landscape and creating the means to be immersed in it.Read more -
Read more: Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024
Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024
Join Vaarnii at Stockholm Furniture Fair, February 6.–10.
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Read more: Thinking With Our Hands
Thinking With Our Hands
London-based design studio Studiomama merges the design sensibilities of Jack Mama and Nina Tolstrup. The pair produce designs that are well considered, playful and honest. Among their most popular projects is the Offcuts series, an informal collection of animal-shaped figurines they create from scraps of wood in their workshop. Continuing their passion for playful objects is the Norppa Seal for Vaarnii, a joyful rocking toy with a compelling sculptural quality. Interview by Rosa Bertoli.
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Read more: When Materials And Time Meet
When Materials And Time Meet
Celebrated Korean designer Kwangho Lee’s designs are characterised by clarity of concept and a very tangible love of construction. In his body of w...Read more -
Read more: Vaarnii at Tableau during 3 Days of Design
Vaarnii at Tableau during 3 Days of Design
Vaarnii teamed up with Tableau for Copenhagen's 3 Days of Design 2023, June 7.–9.
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Read more: Through the Lens
Through the Lens
Photographer Jussi Puikkonen’s images of Finnish landscapes, Brutalist architecture and whimsical everydayism led to the commission to chronicle Vaarnii. Since then, Puikkonen’s idiosyncratic imagery has become a key tool in the expression of the individualism and originality of the Vaarnii character. Here, Puikkonen explains how he captures the brutal and the sophisticated in Vaarnii’s imagery.
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Read more: Icons Reinstated
Icons Reinstated
One prolific mid-century designer laboured over lights made from pine veneer. Now Vaarnii have re-engineered a number of iconic pendants by Hans-Agne Jakobsson and relaunched them for a new generation.
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Read more: Psychedelic Pine
Psychedelic Pine
Designer Fredrik Paulsen has a long-standing love of pine. What began as a relationship of convenience, when Paulsen turned to accessible materials as a young designer, has developed into a deep-held appreciation. Today Paulsen’s much-coveted psychedelic pine furniture and structures are defining works in a genre of design that promotes unpretentious materials. Paulsen is also a compulsive producer of chairs, making him a natural choice to design Vaarnii’s 001 Dining Chair.
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Read more: Vaarnii at Milan Design Week 2022
Vaarnii at Milan Design Week 2022
We exhibited our full range of furniture and introduced several exciting new product launches during Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2022, June 6–12.
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Read more: Can You Draw A Car?
Can You Draw A Car?
Carefully crafting wooden objects by hand is a much-loved pursuit of Danish designer Henrik Tjaerby, yet the economy and efficiency of industrial design is his passion too. Tjaerby brings these two alternate methods of making together in furniture designs he describes as the product of a ‘50/50’ approach; craft and engineering combined. What better match, then, for Vaarnii where craft skills regular run alongside hi-tech processes in their pursuit of a modern vernacular. Tjaerby’s first design for Vaarnii is Osa, a series of outdoor furniture that perfectly demonstrates these shared values.
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