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Finnish interior design magazine (1948–1971)

Kaunis Koti
CategoriesInterior design magazine
FrequencyFour to eight times annually
Founded1948
Final issue1971
CountryFinland
LanguageFinnish

Kaunis Koti (Finnish: Beautiful Home) was the first interior design magazine in Finland which existed between 1948 and 1971.

History and profile

Kaunis Koti was established in 1948 as the first professional Finnish magazine on interior design. Its first issue featured homes of Rut Bryk and Tapio Wirkkala. Later issues also published articles on homes of leading figures, including that of architect Jorma Järvi. The magazine came out 4 to 8 times a year. It adopted a rational modernist approach towards home decoration.

Eila Jokela was among the editors-in-chief of the magazine. Cover pages of Kaunis Koti mostly featured scenes from everyday life, nature and people. The magazine published informative advertisements, and the first commercials for home pools appeared in the magazine in 1966. It folded in 1971 when it merged with another interior design magazine Avotakka.

References

  1. ^ Minna Sarantola-Weiss (2009). "Representations of the Finnish Home in the Interior Decoration Magazines of the 1960s and 1970s". In Hanna Johansson; Kirsi Saarikangas (eds.). Homes in Transformation: Dwelling, Moving, Belonging. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. pp. 43–44, 61. ISBN 9789522220882.
  2. ^ "Kaunis Koti -lehti 1959 vuosikerta: 6 kpl". Huuto.net (in Finnish). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  3. Pirjo Sanaksenaho (2021). "The 1950s and 1960s Modern Home: Magazines as research material". Architectural Research in Finland: 14. doi:10.37457/arf.110605.
  4. ^ Ella Järvinen (2018). "Painettua kauneutta": Kaunis koti -lehden kansikuvat aikansa kuvastajina 1948-1971 (MA thesis) (in Finnish). University of Jyväskylä.
  5. Gay McDonald (December 2010). "The Modern American Home as Soft Power: Finland, MoMA and the 'American Home 1953' Exhibition". Journal of Design History. 23 (4): 401. doi:10.1093/jdh/epq038.
  6. Veera Moll; Hanna Kuusi (2021). "From city streets to suburban woodlands: the urban planning debate on children's needs, and childhood reminiscences, of 1940s–1970s Helsinki". Urban History. 48 (1): 129. doi:10.1017/s096392681900083x. S2CID 210583521.
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