Nikari's 12 months furniture collection

Nikari Oy, founded in 1967, is a manufacturer of sustainable wood design products of exquisite quality. They produce wooden furniture and custom-made furnishings from local certified wood to public premises as well as private homes. The founder - master cabinet maker, designer Kari Virtanen has worked with the greatest Finnish architects and designers such as Alvar Aalto and Kaj Franck. Through decades his determination to concentrate on wood and its ecological benefits has gained Nikari’s great knowledge about Finnish wood and surface treatment materials like oils, waxes and soaps. Nikari runs also a workshop, located in the beautiful, unique Fiskars village in south-west Finland, in the oldest machinery workshop of the country.

Nikari’s “2012 designs for nature” furniture collection, comprises of 12 distinct pieces of furniture, uniquely designed by 12 designers for each month of the year. The project tells about Nikari philosophy and the Finnish wood design ideology of delicately manufacturing exquisite quality furniture and products of the local forests’ wood in Fiskars Village. Because number 12 is the number of the year (and it is the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 year, so definitely worth celebrating) and there are 12 months in a year, twelve designers or design studios were asked to study Nikari philosophy and give their comments to it in a form of a wooden product. They co-operated with the Finnish WWF and part of the sales price donated to protecting rainforests and forests globally.