Joulukalenteri

Selection of joulukalenteri at Stockman

The traditional 'adventtikalenteri' or 'joulukalenteri', created first by the Germans, consists of two pieces of cardboard on top of each other. Twenty four doors are cut out in the top layer, with a number ranging from one to twenty four on each. Beginning on the first day of December, one door is opened each day, counting down the days remaining until 'Joulu Aatto', from twenty four to one... Familiar to all of you I'm sure (however some of you are used to the 25 door -system)... Get into the habbit of checking this web site every morning and Finnish Christmas wonders will be brought to you!

P.S. Is there Santa Claus himself behind the calenders doing some Christmas shopping for the Mrs Claus?

The original iconic modern building?

From Australia & New Zealand - April 99

Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect who was the (original) designer of the Sydney Opera House died earlier today.  As well as being one of the most controversial projects of its day (with scandals over cost over-runs, design arguments, and eventually leaving the project before completion) this is perhaps THE original modern design icon (my definition: a modern building the general public associate with a city), long before Guggenheim, Scottish Parliament or Birdsnest.  Admittedly it has been fairly criticized for poor acoustics and lack of backstage space, and I'm sure we architects could come up with a list of other candidates, but could the general public?

By coincidence, before I read the news, I had been sorting and uploading some of my older photographs; including some from my trip to Australia and New Zealand in 1999, when I was in Sydney for a few days. So the picture of the opera house is a badly scanned one of my own. At the time I remember not wanting to be disappointed by it, and from the outside I wasn't; the interior (not completed to Utzon's design) was another story though, and I was pretty much underwhelmed. My friend Nikki is in the picture just reaching the top of those steps, I wonder where she is now?

To add some local interest, before setting up his own office in 1950 Utzon worked with our local hero, Alvar Aalto, as well as his Swedish contemporary Gunnar Asplund.  

His masterwork, flaws and all, is without doubt his lasting memorial.

Top tip: learn to ski

Well at least their wipers aren't frozen to the windscreen today: Around Helsinki Winter 08/09

As I write this I can see out my triple-glazed window various snowploughs, diggers, mini-tractors, bobcats and quadbikes with mr.plough attachments that are beavering away clearing snow from roads, paths bus stops and apartment building car parks. Somewhere (I imagine) someone is digging their car out, as the snow plough pushes a metre high wall of snow between the road and the drive. The postlady cycles past on her bike. Mothers pull toddlers along on pulkkat (sledges) on their way to nursery, bundled up in near identical romper suits. Life goes on.

Fake snow artists need not apply: From Around Helsinki Winter 08/09

Yesterday morning Hiiri and Konna could tell by the trackless snow that they were the first to leave the house.  The paths had not yet been cleared by the little machines so they had to trek through the 20-25cm snow to the Metro in the snowbright morning darkness- which was running as normal of course. I decided to go for a walk instead of blogging about yesterday's myrsky - who knows how long this will last or when the next lot will be, and good practice for Lappi in the new year.

Over-equipped as usual: From Around Helsinki Winter 08/09

As we live right on the eastern edge of Helsinki, in a couple of minutes I was out next to open fields and drifts half a metre deep.  Luckily I had dressed for the weather (in fact probably over dressed as the wind had completely gone), and had my nordic walking sticks and a flask of hot soup in my pack.  I keep having to stop to take photos, which is a procedure involving: take off stick straps from wrists, prop sticks in snow, remove right ski glove (try not to drop in snow), put on thin glove instead (drop ski glove in snow), take off backpack waist and chest strops, (knock over sticks) find camera, fumble in gloves, take pictures; then reverse process before walking another 10m and wanting to take another picture.  Eventually I work out my camera will fit in my coat pocket, considerably simplyfing this process.

Across the fields: From Around Helsinki Winter 08/09

Back into the woods and immediately see my first skier of the day - and I feel an inadequate ulkomalainen  trying to wade through the snow instead of having skis (although all the falling over would be more embarrassing of course).  The trees are coated in snow, just like those unfeasibly foam coated ones from bad tv snow scenes, and I have a few comedy moments as I brush under low branches sagging with snow which slides off on to me.  I decide it is probably bad manners to trample the fresh ski tracks (as these are easier for following skiers) and plow my own furrow alongside. Looking through the trees I can see foamy, pearly snow grottoes.  It starts to snow again. 

Snow foam and grottoes: From Around Helsinki Winter 08/09

I come across a strange concrete structure - maybe part of the wartime city defences - snow clinging to the grain of the boardmarked concrete.  I am now at the foot of the roskismäkki, the hill of the old rubbish dump (now environmentally beautified) which overlooks the new Vuosaari harbour complexe, but it is time to turn back. I stop for now cold soup and hard bread before I trudge back towards civilization, and as I hit the main, lit track a tractor goes past flattening and compressing the snow and creating two narrow grooves, ready-made ski tracks; and is soon followed by several afternoon skiers. Back home and it is already 3:30 and getting dark - just time for hot shower, hot food and off to the Metro to get to school - level four starts tonight... 

On concrete: From Around Helsinki Winter 08/09

Lumimyrsky - a snowstorm in a teacup

From Porvoo 11/08

Sunday saw the first serious snow fall of the winter in southern Finland, even the Finns officially decided this was a lumimyrsky - a snowstorm. (Although the ones I was with just said 'Pah! This is just normal Finnish winter weather!'). We had been staying at a cottage in Rönnäs near Porvoo where the snow had been of the decorative type only, and were heading back during the day, stopping off at picturesque Porvoo for kahvia ja pullat as the snow fell (sata lunta) and the snow ploughs and gritters got to work on the main roads. 

Picture postcard shopfront: From Porvoo 11/08

We were dropped off at Konna's dad's place to pick up his keys, as he is going to Cyprus for the rest of the winter.  Out of the window we watched the wind shaking the street lights as the snow flew past horizontally. We trudged across the car park to Itäkeskus and the bus station, there was already ten centimetres of snow blanketing the uncleared lot. The bus was the first sign of anything not running smoothly as usual, running a few minutes late as it slithered in and out of the uncleared bus stops. Back at home the snow piled up on the windowsills and was blown across the glass like unconvincing fake spray snow. We heard on the news of a few flight and train delays.  'Imagine if we had been in England' we said, 'we would have got stuck in the first lane trying to leave the cottage, or if not there on the main road where the snow plough hadn't run through yet. And can you imagine London buses trying to run in 10cm of snow? Or the trains?'

kun olen tehnyt kaksi tavaraa

Who made all the pies? 

As I had passed another language test - level 3 with a grade 4 (out of 5) since you ask - and to avoid doing anything really useful like my portfolio or making christmas cards (or god forbid - cleaning!) I made a couple of quiches/flans (what is the difference anyway?) one tuna, pesto, onion & pepper the other mushroom, cheese & tomato. The latter was more photogenic, but the former more tasty.  This is another first for me in the cooking area now I have discovered how to make pastry.  Well, reasonable pastry anyway if you don't mind it very short. One disappeared  yesterday as it was sauna night, and the rest goes with us to yet another weekend mökki retreat with Konna's käverinsä.  

The weather is now more realistically wintry outside - a dusting of snow and five-below, with a few fat flakes drifting around for effect.  Although Hiiri did say that there looked like there was more of a snow storm in her kitchen after I had finished with the flour... lucky she liked the end result, otherwise that might have been the end of my baking for a while.

The 3rd thing (he says referring to the title) was that I now officially exist here and have my very own personal identity code from the Helsingin maistraatti to prove it. Next on the list - kela kortti.

Imperfection / Learning nothing

As I just said in the previous post, today (Tuesday) is another language exam, so I had really better do some revision.  As I am in a sharing mood you, oh lucky reader, get to revise alongside me the glories of Level 3 Finnish for Foreigners.  Those with uncomfortable memories of attempting to learn a language at school may want to look away now... The rest of you may need the following reference materials to join in properly: Suomen Kielen Alkeisoppikirja, Harjituskirja, Suomi-Englanti-Suomi Sanakirja, Hyvin Menee!, Finnish: An Essential Grammar, and a Finnish speaking person may also come in useful in a pinch...

So what have we done the last three weeks? Ah the mysteries of the past, the past tenses that is: Imperfekti (I did...), Perfekti (I have done...), and Pluskvamperfecti (I had done...); Konditionaali (would/could/should); Omistusliite (possessive suffixes); and Indefiniittipronominit.  Here's an example

• Imperfekti (the imperfect or 'simple' past tense):
  

Basically (for the positive) you chuck an i into the verb - most of the time anyway.

So with verbityypit 1, 3 & 5 if the verb 'stem/body' (vartalo) ends with o, ö, u, y you add an -i- before the persoonapääte (the personal prounoun suffix), but if the vartalo ends a, ä, e, i you drop that vowel (vokaali) before adding the i. eg:

SANOA (to say)> sano-> sanoi- > eg: sanoimme (we said)

LUKEA (to read)> lue-> lui- > eg: luin (I read); he lukivat sen eilen (they read it yesterday). [Note the disappearing/reappearing K. This is known as 'type 1 verb consonant gradation' but doesn't apply to the hän (he/she) and he (they) person]

AJATELLA (to think)> ajattele-> ajatteli- > eg: hän ajatteli (he/she thought); ajattelitko asiaa? (did you think of something?) [Note the gaining of an extra T. This is known as 'type 3 verb reverse consonant gradation, which applies to all the personal versions]

However, if any of these verbs have just two syllables were the first and last vowels in the vartalo are both a then instead of just substituting i for the last a, you put -oi-

eg: ALKAA (to start) > al-a- / al-ka > alan (I start) > aloin (I started) [there goes that K again]

Type 2 verbs are complicated in that double vowels (VV) lose 1 and get an i as expected, but -uo, -yö, -oi, vartalo endings lose the first vowel and then get an -i- 

eg: SAADA (to get/receive) > saa- > saitte (you [plural/polite] received);  hän sai lahjan (he/she got a present)

SYÖDÄ (to eat) > syö- > söin omenan (I ate an apple)

Type 4 verbs are different as they have -si- added instead of -i- 

eg: HALUTA (to want)> halua-> haluasitko? (what did you want?)

For negative imperfect constructions you have to use the negatory verb ei with the perusmutto of the verb (that is with the end chopped off, which is not the same as the vartalo) then add the ending  -nut/-nyt for singular and -neet for plural. Usually. eg:

VT1: SOITTAA (to call/ring) > en soittanut (I didn't call); emme soittaneet (we didn't call)

VT2: SYÖDÄ (to eat) > et syönyt (you didn't eat); he eivät syöneet (they didn't eat)

VT3: MENNÄ (to go) > hän ei mennyt (he/she didn't go); ette menneet (you [pl.] didn't go)

VT3: TULLA (to come)> en tullut; emme tulleet

VT3: PESTÄ (to wash)> en pessyt; emme pesseet

VT4: HALUTA (to want)> en halunnut; emme halunneet

VT5: VALITA (to choose) > hän ei valinnut; he eivät valinneet

I'll skip most of the rest (otherwise I might as well write my own Grammar book) except for the indefinite pronouns - someone, something & no-one, nothing, which I need some practice on anyway:

• Joku - someone; some; someone in/on/from/... (human)

case : - malli / example

nominative: joku - Joku soitti sinulle / someone rang (to/for) you

vartalo: jo- + ku-

partative: jotakuta - Etsittekö jotakuta / Are you searching for somebody?

accusative: jonkun - Tapasitko jonkun siellä? / Did you meet someone there?

genetive: jonkun - Täällä on jonkun lompakko / Here (there) is someone's wallet

illative: johonkuhun - Kaisa on ihastunut johonkuhun italialaiseen / Kaisa has 'fallen for' someone Italian

inessive: jossakussa -

elative: jostakusta - Juoruatteko se taas jostakusta / 

allative: jollekulle

adessive: jollakulla - Kun jollakulla on nimipäivä, juhlitaan / When someone has (a) name-day, celebrate.

ablative: joltakulta - Sinulle tuli kortti joltakulta / To you came (a) card from someone

plural nom.: jotkut

• ei mikään - nothing; none; not anything; nowhere; not somewhere (non-human)

nominative: ei mikään - Häntä ei kiinnosta mikään / He/she is not interested in anything

partative: ei mitään - Eilen en tehnyt mitään / Yesterday I did nothing

genetive: ei minkään

illative: ei mihinkään - Paula ei mennyt mihinkään juhannuksena / Paula didn't go (to) anywhere at Juhannus (midsummer)

inessive: ei missään - Hän ei ollut missään juhannuksena / She had gone nowhere (for) midsummer

elative: ei mistään - Me emme halua puhua mistään / We didn't want to talk about anything

allative: ei millekään - En halua osallistua millekään kurssille / I don't want to take part on (in) some course

adessive: ei millään - Millään ei ole väliä / On nothing is/be care = 'nothing matters'

ablative: ei miltään - Eikö suomalainen ruoka maistu miltään? / Doesn't Finnish food taste of (off/from) anything/something?

So, I guess the question is, have I learnt 'nothing' yet?

Boy interrupted

[Not sure if I'm ever going to manage to post this, as Safari (newly upgraded to 3.2) keeps crashing on me. There it goes again. Anyway...]

As it is now week 12 of my 16 week language course, this means it is already time for test number three this Tuesday. In the the last 10 weeks I've got into a bit of a routine for my days, being pretty much undisturbed all day after Hiiri and Konna go to work at some unholy hour of the morning.  Sitting at the kitchen table to do my homework and watch the squirrels in the yard. Leaving to go to the course at 4:30 as everyone else is coming home from work.  This routine has been disrupted by Hiiri hurting her leg, and being off work all week, so I've retreated to our room to work while she talks on the phone, smokes on the balcony, watches 'The Bold and the Beautiful' or drinks black coffee in the kitchen while reading the Finnish equivalent of 'Hello'.  There are occasional halting conversations in Finnish (usually ending with me saying 'en tiedä' or 'en ymmärra' - I don't know / I don't understand).  Hiiri is also probably at a bit of a loose end during the day, having gone shopping and to the kirputori (fleamarket - selling not buying) by the time I have got up and had my breakfast in the morning and keeps helpfully doing things for me ... and as I wrote that she has just brought me a stack of clean, dry laundry - so now I feel bad for not taking it down before doing this!  

The second day she was off, I was eating my muesli (honest, I don't do fry ups every day you know) when two friends turned up, warmed up with a bit of coffee and gossip, and started to give her a home perm and hair cut in the kitchen.  

The third day she was off 10 friends came round at 3pm and they had some sort of 'tupperware party' thing about health food in the lounge (not entirely sure, as I blundered in and froze before escaping early to my course at 4pm, only thinking there was a couple of people there). 

On the 4th day, being a Thursday and on which I had got into a habit of going shopping and cooking an evening meal - as my contribution to invading the spare room, and as a prelude to our weekly sauna and swimming slot - I discovered that Hiiri was cooking kaalilaatikko, a 'box', meaning a casserole (the size of a vat in this case) of cabbage and mincemeat.  'Huomenta minä teisin ruokka' (Tomorrow I could cook) I said thinking that way I could buy some of the groceries as well, 'oh-ko' she says then rummages in the now groaning fridge and freezer and shows me two packs of cubed pork and a fridge drawer full of vegetables - ah, forget the shopping then, but what can I make with that I wondered.  Anyway she is back to work tomorrow, so I will be able to relax and not worry about getting in her way anymore... it is her flat afterall...

I wonder what the squirrels have been up to?

Finnish studs

so... what exactly is this a picture of!? nokian talvirenkaat

Well the title might have generated a few unusual search hits, and you may be worrying what exactly that aggressive and phallic looking thing is (especially if you were trying to get here), but don't worry it's nothing like that - nor is this post about a suomea remake of the 1970's film of Jackie Collins' book...   

Instead, ask yourself - if you could hear winter approaching what would it sound like?

Since the beginning of the month, walking alongside the roads as the evenings draw in, I have increasingly heard the winter creeping up on us.  That is the crunching-hiss of studded talvirenkaat (winter tyres) on passing cars, almost like a distant gravel drive.  Studded winter tyres are allowed from 1 November to the end of March, and winter tyres (not necessarily studded) are obligitory between 1 December and Feb 28th (or whenever weather conditions are considered bad enough to need them). I imagine if we actually had a car that tonttu creature would be complaining we haven't changed tyres yet...

Other essential winter items are engine block heaters, so the car will actually start (so that's what those posts in all the carparks are), and super anti-freeze in the windscreen wash (there is one called superpiss - I kid you not).  Passing the Finnish winter (ice) driving test helps too I guess. It is often said that the combination of snow, ice, lonely gravel roads, studded tyres, and the terrifying 'I was here first' rule for joining traffic, is the reason for Finland's unsurpassed output of rally and race drivers (well except this year). 

Luckily for us (admittedly occasional) cyclists there also studded winter bike tyres available (as shown in the picture if you hadn't realised) - and if you have ever gone down on a bike on ice or snow you will appreciate that.  I just need to decide if I am really going to take my bike out in the cold & dark before buying some... I mean there's lots else to do inside...

Isänpäivä

- Herrätys! Tänään on Isänpäivä. On myös lippu päivä suomessä - tämän lippun on Aarrikka. On hasu suomalainen asia. No niin!

Helvetti, Sähkötonttun on pakko näyttää suomen lippu, koska typerä ihmieset eivät ole muistaneet blogissa! Voi vitsi... minä toivon eivät ole unohtaneet heidän isänsä myös.

Nyt Sähkötonttun täytyy mennä siivottamaan jonkin kovalevy... persestä!

Wall (1W)

Tallinn city wall surrounding the old town

Most of Tallinn's medieval city wall still stands, inlcuding 26 defensive towers. Inside the protection of the wall one can also found his/her way to DM baar (= Depeche Mode)... hmm...

Old Town (2W)

Olde Hansa building in the centre of the old town of Tallinn

Tallinn the capital of Estonia is named after Taani Linnus (which means Danish Castle)... or is it? Some say it could also have come from tali-linna (winter castle or town) or perhaps from talu-linna (house/farmstead-castle/town... Hmm. Wherever the name comes from the place is worth while visiting as it is full of medieval buildings, romantic alleyways and personal signs.

Designed by a Finn (4W)

The view from KUMU courtyard towards the building

The view from KUMU top exhition floor towards the city of Tallinn (in bad weather!)

KUnstiMUseeum (KUMU) was a result of an open international architectural competition that was held in 93-94, in which architects from ten countries took part. The winner of the competition was the Finnish architect Pekka Vapaavuori. Construction started in 2002 and the Kumu Art Museum was opened to the visitors in February 2006.

The new museum site is located on four hectares in Tallinn, on the limestone bank of Lasnamägi next to Kadriorg Park. The building has seven floors (including technical floors) and the total area is 23 900 m². It is a modern multifunctional art building, which contains exhibition halls, a lecture hall offering diverse facilities, and an educational centre for young visitors and art lovers. The scale difference between the new building and the surrounding old villas (Russian type) is vast. You kind of wonder if the building should have been located outside Tallinn - but for the visitors like us the distance from the Vana Tallinn is walkable - even if it's raining cats & dogs (+ all sort of animals).

Ruotsalaisuuden päivä

- Perkele! Onko minun pakko tehdä kaikki itse? Tänään on Ruotsalaisuuden päivä, missä oli lippun? Ajattelen jotkut henkilöt ovat unohtaneet kuka tekee hölynpölyn sähkösanat tulevat tietokoneltä. Se on minä! Sähkötonttu, on asunut teidän bloggissa. Tottakai, nykypäivän ihmiset eivät muista meitä koskaan. Ennen muinoin suomalaiset syöttivät leipää ja maitoa kotitonttuun, mutta nyt... ei mitään! 

Network problems (3W)

Tram going towards Viru Keskus

Tallinn's public transportation system seems a fairly straightforward network of buses, trollybuses and trams, all of which use the same tickets. Still getting on a tram from Kumu wasn't that straightforward... there didn't seem to be any tram stops nearby...

Rotermanni Kvartal (6W)

One of the features at the Rotermanni Kvartal area, Tallinn

Rotermann Centre near the old town and Viru Keskus in Tallinn is the vibrant new 'architectural experiment' that includes restored and new buildings from various architects/designers, such as HG Architecs & KOKO Architects.

 

 

Note: It's worthwhile checking out the website as it offers lots of information on the buildings & architectural ideas for the area's development: www.rotermannikvartal.ee/eng/

Kielikuva

Mobile Shadow in Kumu: From Tallinn

As Konna seems to have gone blog crazy this week (warning: much like her postcards, there are still more to come!) I thought I would try to get a word in edgeways while she isn't looking. As you may be getting blog post fatigue I'll just point out:

• New pictures (from our Tallinn trip) on the sidebar and on Picasa;
  
• A short video of the NOFLUXUS light installation on YouTube (and on the sidebar);
• New links 'cloud' also on the sidebar (finally found how to do it by looking at the More Breaking Waves blog and then got code from phy3blog)
  

And some words I am enjoying a the moment (just don't ask about negative imperfect...)

• Kielikuva - figure of speech (literally: tongue picture)
  
• Crapula - hangover (really!)
• Suomentaa - to translate into Finnish
• Aakkonen - the word for a letter [of the alphabet] is the first word in the dictionary
• Meilailla/Meilata - to send an email (Meilaan - I send email; en meilaa - I don't sent email; meilasin - I sent email; En meilanyt - I didn't send email - okay I admit it, that is the negative imperfect of the Meilata form)
• Kaamos - the winter period of dark and cold above the arctic circle

And the best one:

• Hajuvesi - perfume (literally: smell water)

Any other suggestions? Obviously there are some strange English constructions when you think about it too.

Let me know when you have recovered from Konna's onslaught...

Estonian sculptor Jaanisoo (5W)

Ms Estonia Memorial, Tallinn

Estonian sculptor Villu Jaanisoo designed the Ms Estonia memorial Katkennut Linja (= Broken Line) together with architect Jorma Mukula in 1996 for the memory of the 852 victims of 24 Septeber 1994 disaster.

Salt storage (7W)

Exhibition Boom/Room 2000-2008 at the Estonian Architectural Museum

Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum in an old salt store near the harbour (1st floor exhibition hall pictured above) features Boom/Room exhibition until 3 November featuring most of the 'worth while mentioning' buildings built in Estonia during 2000-2008.

The bizarrely laid exhibition includes buildings for all sort of purposes, from living, working, shopping to education etc, and for purely showing off purposes like some of the large scale residential monstrosities. Exhibition gives a good overview of the economical growth that Estonia has seen in the past years - but shame the museum had no catalogue for the exhibition though.

Seven 'wonders' of our Southern neighbour Capital

Complete the above and you might find out what is coming...

Not pyramids or hanging gardens - no statues or temples... no new wonders of the world either... but the 'architectural wonders' of Tallinn, capital of Eesti/Viro, the place we visited last weekend... Wonders are coming to you starting tomorrow in no particular order:

Wall & DM

Old Town (Vana Tallinn)

Network problems

Designed by a Finn

Estonian sculptor Jaanisoo

Rotermann Centre

Salt storage

P.S. Better city, better life?

All of the Finland's pavillion designs (104!!!) on show at Yliopistonkatu 5, Helsinki

P.S. See the official poster for the Shanghai Expo above. Where is Finland's design KIRNU on that poster may I ask? Hmm, Uk pavillion JEWEL, that has now attracted some negative publicity, seems to be at the bottom right corner... At least the expected 80 million visitors will be able to see the Kirnu, which uses industrial recycling product of paper/pastic composite sheeting as the main cladding material on supporting structure of steel. Finland's pavillion will be located next to the other Nordic countries... Wherever that may be during 1 May - 31 October 2010 (6 months!)...

Visiting (by public transport) the above exhibition at Yliopistonkatu might be enough for us - or what do you think dear readers: Should we go against the expo message on sustainable development and fly to China for a long weekend?

As the news reported Finland having a 16th heaviest ecological footprint (by WWF Living Planet Report) in the world last week, it makes me think if there is something sustainable in erecting the pavillions for 6 months only... perhaps Finland can get back up to having the 3rd heaviest ecological footprint in the world, if loads of Finns travel to see the Kirnu in 'flesh & blood'!

P.P.S. Finland dropped 13 places down in the heaviest ecological footprint listings due to the way of measuring (WWF Living Planet Report ranked Finland third in 2006, the newest report ranks Finland 16th)- we are really still at the top... Note Sweden is ranked 18th, Russia is ranked 36th! UAE, USA, Kuwait, Denmark & Australia are amonst the top five.

Valoa ja vauhtia pimeydessä?

= Light and speed in the darkness?

Following emmdee's previous weather related blog I thought to soften the common belief that it is dark for half a year in Finland... and that you can't ride motorcycles during this so called dark half of the year...

For a moment the dark day turned into LIGHTFULL athmosphere & motorcycles (+ good food) when we visited Teclux showroom (Pohj. Hesperiankatu 7, Helsinki) last week, where the selected models of Ducati were competing with the selection of Artemid lights (designs for both from 65 to present day).

Then again did this convince anyone that it is not always dark in Finland and that you can enjoy life during this period? No? Ok then - be like that...