My favourite room: My kitchen, where an old wood-burning stove creates a wonderful ambiance and warmth
I work best when: I’m alone and surrounded by utter silence
My greatest design influence: Nature – the beauty of its shapes and colours is difficult to surpass with the human hand
My best design moment: When I won the competition to design and execute the textiles for the Mariagård church in Porvoo
My first memory of Marimekko: Iloinen Takki
When I travel I always take: The wool socks my mother knit and a sense of adventure
The colour that means comfort to me: White
The colour that means courage to me: Burgundy
The pattern I’m most fascinated with right now: Fujiwo Ishimoto’s Kuiskaus
The best Sunday morning music: Birdsong
My favourite escape: Jo Nesbø’s crime novels – they are so many-layered and precise in their observations of human behaviour
I relax by: Staring out at the lake from my sauna dock in the summer, knitting by my stove in the winter
Excessive selfishness terrifies me.
If I were not working as a designer, I would be: A film director
