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Design Shopping, Helsinki
Candleholders by designer Alfredo Haberli, Iittala Helsinki
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Functional, elegant, outrageous or wacky: the choice is yours. The capital's de-
cidedly nonmainstream chic is best explored by browsing the vast variety of
design shops that spatter its centre (
Click here
). Whether examining iconic 20th-
century Finnish forms in the flagship emporia of brands like Iittala, Marimekko and
Artek, or tracking down the cutting-edge and just plain weird in the bohemian Pun-
avuori district, you're sure to find something you didn't know you needed but just
can't do without. And yes, they all deliver...
