12/11/2012

Northern Oddities Vol. 2




 

Ivana Helsinki presents: 

Northern Oddities – Finnish design collective consisting of Six emerging design brands.

 

This December we will be featuring six of Finland’s newest and progressive design and fashion brands in a month long pop-up shop experience in our Concept Store in Nolita. We have curated and carefully selected a group of creatives that reflects our sense of style and whom share our ethos and passion for quality. There will be clothing, accessories as well as home decor on display and available for purchase at Northern Oddities vol 2.

Opening event is on Friday December 7th from 7pm to 10pm. Join us for drinks, live music and christmas spirit!

 

 

Linda Sipilä’s clean-lined, timeless SIPILÄ collection is designed for the modern, style-conscious woman. Her work is characterized by exceptional design, high-quality materials, and superb finishing. She is also the winner of Finnish verson of Project Runway.





titiMadam believes that design should not be taken too seriously.  Their  playful jewellery and funky home collection has been made with love. Not forgetting that humor should always be part of our lives. Already successful in Europe they want to take over US!




Polkka Jam is an illustration and design studio with 10 years of experience in producing unique prints and patterns. While creating visual joy for everyday life, they aim to keep production as local and ecological as possible. All our products are manufactured in Finland. Welcome to see their illustrated world!





SUPERYELLOW is an energetic and fresh accessories and clothing brand which creates unique products with contemporary design. Their designs combine prints and patterns in original ways. Quality of products and ethical views play an important role in the company’s values and all products are Designed and made in Finland.



Also featured in our store:


&Bros
&Bros is a design studio from Helsinki  that designs and produces high class ceramic objects and textiles with an interesting twist to cheer up your home! Products are designed, handprinted and made in Finland.

 

Graphic t-shirts and other design projects from outerwear attire to accessories and beyond.



Ivana Helsinki Concept Store
Ivana Helsinki NYC Shop
251 Elizabeth Street
10012 New York
Tel: +1 646 360 3802
shopnyc@ivanahelsinki.com

5/30/2012

FAREWELLS AND GOODBYES


Northern Oddities - Design Collection from Finland was a joyful manifesto for Finnish eccentric lifestyle and its pure form of design. It was a story of eight curious Finnish design brands on their crusade to New York City.




The exhibition and the events in NYC are over now. We hope we were able to offer some comprehensively memorable pitstops to you. Thank you New York, we will be back! Maybe sooner than you might even think of...


Northern Oddities kiittää. Sydän lämpöä täys.

5/29/2012

WE WERE BLOGGED!


At least these respected fellow bloggers have found "Northern Oddities - Design Collection from Finland" cute, odd, interesting...

Core 77

The Wild magazine

The Mavin

Dog-milk

Northern space

New Finnish Design City

Finnish Cultural Insitute NY

Consulate General of Finland NY


Thank you all! We like you too!

5/27/2012

AS HAPPENED AT PURE PROFILES

Northern design is known of its pure and simple shapes, colours, profiles and functionality - less is more, as we tend to say.

It was time for silhouette artist Andrea Peitsch to find the essential beauty of one's profile. Andrea is a second generation silhouette artist and raises dairy goats and chickens on a micro farm in a coastal Rhode Island.


The process...



... and the result.

5/21/2012

AS HAPPENED AT ODD FEST


Odd Fest

Thank you all for coming!

Special thanks to 
Burning Hearts for great live music!
Nutty Tarts for the performance - North is odd, but Nutty Tarts are even odder!
DJ's for excellent dancing music!
Fazer and Linkosuo for the snacks and sweets!

We had a great time and we hope you did too!

AS HAPPENED AT DOGS MEET FASHION AND DESIGN



These awesome polaroid pictures we got from Saturday's photo shooting event. The pose which wins the Ivana Helsinki dress and the Neroko Loop toy, was done by Gina and Sophie. Congratulations! For more pictures click Neroko's facebook album Dogs Meet Fashion and Design !

 
Making of...



Marley likes biscuits.

5/18/2012

NUPPU LABS PARTY!







Northern Oddities @ NY Internet Week


Nuppu Labs is a collaborative comprised of New York City strategists and Finnish designers and developers. Nuppu Labs were bringing together the best talents from both countries on Thursday 17th of May in a party on a Projective Base location at Broadway.

We were also invited to showcase a sneak preview of Northern Oddities. Thank you all for visiting our corner. We liked you and thought you liked us as well : ). Hope to see you again on Saturday at Odd Fest-party!

Btw, what other northern oddities do you know?  

5/17/2012

ODD FEST



Spectacular Odd Fest 

19th of May, starting from 7 pm

Sometimes life offers comprehensively memorable pitstops. Welcome to experience Northern Oddities alive:

What’s really odd up in north? 

Moments and images from Finland, northern lifestyle and comics of common preconceptions.
Performance by Finnish art duo Nutty Tarts

Nutty Tarts is a Finnish art duo that moves between the areas of contemporary art and design. www.tarahtaneet.net

Live music!

by Burning Hearts

Burning Hearts is Finnish electro-folk-pop duo specialised in writing timeless songs with female vocal harmonies that sound as they came from the head of Zeus.
www.burningheartsmusic.com

Drinks, snacks and sweets
for your pleasure and surprise!

Welcome!

DOGS MEET FASHION AND DESIGN

 

Bring your dog to the catwalk

19th of May, 12-5 pm
Drive-in event for all fashionistas and their dogs.

Pick your favorite Ivana Helsinki dress & get polaroided together with your dog on Neroko stage.
Best pose wins the dress!

Organic, locally sourced, hand made Spoil Me Rotten -treats for your dog! www.smrdogbiscuits.com/

Neroko is an interior design brand born out of a great love for dogs and a passion for sustainable Finnish design. www.neroko.com

INTRODUCING: KAKSITVÅ AND FRIENDS-pillow



FRIENDS pillow

FRIENDS-pillows were designed on a European tour of an Costa Rican band. When KAKSITVÅ designers  were homesick, they remembered the faces of their friends, the emotions, the expressions. FRIENDS pillow makes you smile and there is something to do for the whole family with it.


ABOUT KAKSITVÅ

Designer duo Marjo Kuusinen and Piia Keto run together the accessory brand KAKSITVÅ from Helsinki, Finland. KAKSITVÅ products include an entire lifestyle. The collection consists of clothing, jewelry, bags and accessories. In addition, KAKSITVÅ product family includes household items such as pillows, chairs, and tableware.

The inspiration to their work comes from everything that happens around them –countryside life mixed to the adventures around the world. In their spare time designers thrive in the Helsinki nightlife, rapping and searching for the after parties. 

The name of the brand consists of the word two both in Finnish and in Swedish. They came up with the name when they met a pair of Finnish-Swedish twins whose dissimilar personalities inspired them as designers.

INTRODUCING: EIMI


EIMI: ROCKING CHAIR


Every farm house used to have one big rocking chair in the corner of the family room. The chair was usually reserved for the man of the house. Nowadays young folk wants to have a nostalgic piece of the countryside in their urban homes.

www.eimi.fi

5/16/2012

MAKING OF...





So we finally have arrived to the location 251 Elizabert Street, Nolita, NY. Almost all of our packages had also arrived so we started to unpack and set up the exhibition.

This is how far we got. Look at the nice shop window! There is still things to be done as we are still missing two parcels to arrive, they will be there hopefully tomorrow. Or day after, so be patient. That is what we also try to be...

5/15/2012

WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANKS

Consulate General of Finland, New York
Finnish Cultural Institute in New York

SNACKS AND SWEETS

Fazer
Linkosuo

SHIPPING

Fedex

LIVE MUSIC

Burning Hearts

5/14/2012

INTRODUCING: SILLY OWL






SILLY OWL


After a hot sauna we Finns enjoy sitting outdoors cooling off. During the midnight summer the sun doesn’t set at all. In a mystical summer night you can perhaps hear a faint sound of an owl. Silly baby owls handmade by Elina are a bit silly, also the word for owl in finnish describe somebody who is a bit silly and goofy.

design and handmade by Elina Järvinen

INTRODUCING: MAIJA DRESS



MAIJA DRESS / IVANA HELSINKI


Oh those hot summer days, summer’s lasting longer than a year. Warm yellow Indian afternoons, bare feet on moist cold rocks, scents of deep green pine forests. Endless freedom, Indian Summer sunsets, golden dusks that never fade to dark. When I was a child I read the stories of Cowboys and Indians. All the adventures I would imagine they had in the deserts I could mimic in the northern woods.

Print dress with puffy sleeves and ruffles on the button row in Ivana Helsinki Indian Summer print designed by Paola Suhonen