Timo Ripatti

Timo Ripatti was born in Finland in 1967 and trained in architecture and industrial design. He leads Studio Ripatti in Helsinki and teaches furniture design at Aalto University and the Lahti Institute of Design and Fine Arts. His design language is sculptural and poetic yet functional, with a Scandinavian touch.

His Ellipse chair for Vivero won the SIO Furniture Award, and in 2010 he was named Finland’s Furniture Designer of the Year. For Billiani he designed Tango in 2015, an ash coat stand of six poles twisted around a central joint, a tribute to great Italian design.