the furniture designer and architect in finland yrjö kukkapuro (born 1933) is a central figure in the finnish functionalism. kukkapuro works as a freelance designer from the 1950s and most of the furniture he designed at the beginning of my career is still in production. today yrjö kukkapuro creates mainly for the company avarte. his most famous are the karuselli furniture chair, table saturnus, the chair skaala, the series remmi and the chair and the sofa ateljee. one of the favorite quotes of kukkapuro is: "what's the point to create a chair that is not good to sit? "and this describes very well the love of the designer for the ergonomic furniture.