Company

Finnish-Korean duo Aamu Song and Johan Olin founded the Helsinki-based design practice COMPANY in 2000. Their practice is predicated on travel; exploring to uncover local craft expertise to inspire their contemporary, imaginative designs.

  • LOCATION Finland
  • ESTD. 2000-present
  • BRANDS Artek, Hermès, Nikari

Song and Olin, of the Finnish-Korean design practice COMPANY work as artists, designers, and producers, in addition to running their Helsinki shop, Salakauppa.

Through their project Secrets, they travel globally to find and collaborate with traditional manufacturers, creating new designs grounded in local craft expertise. Each design is an outcome of collaboration, including their contribution to Artek's FIN/JPN Friendship Collection: six ceramic objects evoking the animist, pagan past of Finland.

COMPANY’s work belongs in the permanent collections of Design Museum Finland, EMMA, and HAM, and has been exhibited at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture.

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