Hvitträsk
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Hvitträsk is a mansion complex in Kirkkonummi, Finland, about 30 kilometers (19 mi) west of Helsinki. It was designed as a studio home by the members of the Finnish architecture firm Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen, later becoming the private residence of Eliel Saarinen. It currently operates as a museum.
Description
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The development was started when the plot was purchased by the company in 1901. The construction was mostly completed by 1903.[1][2][3][4] The house was named after Lake Vitträsk, beside which it was built. [H]vitträsk literally means White Lake. Today Hvitträsk is a museum open to the public. The red-roofed manor structure facing the lake is the main museum building, and the brownish structure separated on the other side by a yard is the cafeteria. There is also a smaller sauna down by the lake.[5]
In 1922 Lindgren's home in the north side partially burned down. Eliel Saarinen's son Eero Saarinen designed a new building in its place in 1929–33.[5][1][6]
Gallery
- View of the lakeside
- View of the museum building from the lakeside
- Side of the museum, with the cafeteria visible on the right
- The cafeteria
- Museum seen from the cafeteria
- Road from the opposite northeast side, with the cafeteria ahead
- Cafeteria front, where the museum building would now be on the right
- Courtyard structure
- The gravesite of Eliel Saarinen, his wife Loja and Herman Geselius[7]
- Living Room
- Dining Room
- Stained glass Rival Suitors by Olga Gummerus-Ehrström, 1905
- Library
- Atelier
- Géza Maróti's relief The Angel of Resurrection in the atelier
- Playroom
Featured in publications
- Moderne Bauformen 6, no. 4 (1907): 159–62;8, no. 8 (1909): 350, 353.
- Hemma och Ute 3, (August 1913): 210–14; 3 (September 1913): 234–5.
- American Architect and Architectural Review 124 (September 26, 1923): 19 pls.
- Arkkitehti nos. 11–12 (1943): 24.
- Architectural Review 139 (February 1966): 152–54.
- Space Design no. 133 (September 1975): 91–94
- Connaissance des Arts no. 238 (December 1971): 108–13, 192.
- New York Times 13 February 1966, VI, p. 64.
References
- "Hvitträsk Historiaa". Kansallismuseo. 23 January 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- "Hvitträsk". Museot. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- "Hvitträsk Museum". Visit Espoo. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- "Hvitträsk, Kirkkonummi". Museovirasto Restauroi. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- "Hvittärskin ateljeehuvila". Valtakunnalliset merkittävät rakennetut kulttuuriympäristöt RKY. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- Koskela, Anna (19 September 2017). "Hvitträsk Vaimojen vaihto ja kummituksia". Tämä Matka. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- Jaakkola, Saana (16 November 2015). "Kalliomaalausten metsästys päättyi hautaan – Vitträsk-järven maisemissa". Live now dream later. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.