I'm running out of cards to post here. I mean, received cards. It's already mid-january and i've only received 5 or 6 cards :o I used to have a pile of 50 or more cards to post and now i only have 8!! I really hope i'll get more cards in the next days.
Photographed & Published by Pentti Harala, Espoo
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Hvitträsk was built between 1901-1903 by architects Herman
Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel
Saarinen. The main building, designed in National Romantic style, built
of logs and natural stone, was both a common studio and a home for Eliel
Saarinen and Armas Lindgren for some years after it was completed. During that
time, Gesellius lived in the courtyard building and later moved into the
north-wing of the main building after Lindgren relocated in
Helsinki.
During the early decades, the main building served as both an
architectural office and as a cultural home. It was visited by such esteemed
figures as Jean Sibelius, Axel Gallen-Kallela and Maksim Gorki.
The
office's staff also lived at Hvitträsk, and this is where the plans were drawn
up for the Helsinki Railway Station, the National Museum of Finland and the
monumental Munkkiniemi-Haaga project, among other grand works.
Hvitträsk
is also the boyhood home for world famous architect Eero
Saarinen, who made his reputation primarily in the United States
designing buildings and monuments such as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis,
Missouri.
The Saarinen home is a museum today, and within the courtyard
building are a restaurant and a café. Hvitträsk and its lovely English style
garden are surrounded by beautiful nature near the shore of Lake Vitträsk. - in: http://www.nba.fi/en/museums/hvittrask
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