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Kaj Franck, the Glossary

Kaj Gabriel Franck (9 November 1911 – 26 September 1989) was one of the leading figures of Finnish design and an influential figure in design and applied arts between 1940 and 1980.^[1]

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Artists from Vyborg
Finnish designers

Aalto University

Aalto University (Aalto-yliopisto; Aalto-universitetet) is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland.

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Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture; Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulu; Aalto-universitetets högskola för konst, design och arkitektur), was formed of two separate schools: the faculty of architecture (previously part of the Helsinki University of Technology) and the University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH, known in Finnish as TaiK).

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ADI Design Museum

The ADI Design Museum is a museum in Milan, Italy, which houses the historical collection of the ADI Compasso d'Oro Foundation, as well as temporary exhibitions, public talks and initiatives.

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Applied arts

The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing.

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Arabia (brand)

Arabia was a Finnish ceramics company, founded in 1873 by Rörstrand, now owned by Fiskars.

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Compasso d'Oro

The Compasso d'Oro is an industrial design award originated in Italy in 1954. Kaj Franck and Compasso d'Oro are Compasso d'Oro Award recipients.

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Design

A design is the concept of or proposal for an object, process, or system.

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Design Forum Finland

Design Forum Finland is the promotion organization of Finnish design.

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Design Museum, Helsinki

Design Museum (Designmuseo, Designmuseet) is a museum in Helsinki devoted to the exhibition of both Finnish and foreign design, including industrial design, fashion, and graphic design.

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Eero Aarnio

Eero Aarnio (born 21 July 1932) is a Finnish designer, noted for his innovative furniture designs in the 1960s, such as his plastic and fibreglass chairs. Kaj Franck and Eero Aarnio are Compasso d'Oro Award recipients.

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Germans in Finland

Germans in Finland are immigrants from Germany residing in Finland. Kaj Franck and Germans in Finland are Finnish people of German descent.

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Grand Duchy of Finland

The Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Harri Koskinen

Harri Koskinen is a Finnish designer, born 1970 in Karstula, Finland. Kaj Franck and Harri Koskinen are designer stubs, Finnish artist stubs and Finnish designers.

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Heikki Orvola

Heikki Orvola (born November 29, 1943, in Helsinki) is a Finnish designer and planner. Kaj Franck and Heikki Orvola are Finnish designers.

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Hietaniemi Cemetery

The Hietaniemi cemetery (Hietaniemen hautausmaa, Sandudds begravningsplats) is located mainly in the Lapinlahti quarter and partly in the Etu-Töölö district of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

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Iittala

Iittala, founded as a glassworks in 1881, is a Finnish design brand specialising in design objects, tableware and cookware.

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Mint of Finland

The Mint of Finland (Suomen Rahapaja, Myntverket i Finland), legally registered as Suomen Rahapaja Oy (Myntverket i Finland Ab in Swedish), is the national mint of Finland.

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Oiva Toikka

Oiva Kalervo Toikka (29 May 1931 – 22 April 2019) was a Finnish glass designer, best known for his designs for Iittala. Kaj Franck and Oiva Toikka are artists from Vyborg, Finnish designers and Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal.

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Prince Eugen Medal

The Prince Eugen Medal (Prins Eugen-medaljen) is a medal conferred by the King of Sweden for "outstanding artistic achievement".

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Santorini

Santorini (Santoríni), officially Thira (Thíra) and Classical Greek Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from its mainland.

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Scandinavian design

Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaj_Franck

Also known as Kaj Franck Prize.