Hvitträsk

Hvitträsk is a mansion complex in Kirkkonummi, Finland, about 30 kilometers (19 mi) west of Helsinki. It was designed as a studio home for the members of the Finnish architecture firm Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen, later becoming the private residence of Eliel Saarinen. It currently operates as a museum.

Hvitträsk

Description
Postage stamp from 1978

The development it began 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, by 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]

Exterior
  • 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]
Interior
  • 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
  • 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
  1. "Hvitträsk Historiaa". Kansallismuseo. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  2. "Hvitträsk". Museot. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  3. "Hvitträsk Museum". Visit Espoo. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  4. "Hvitträsk, Kirkkonummi". Museovirasto Restauroi. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  5. "Hvittärskin ateljeehuvila". Valtakunnalliset merkittävät rakennetut kulttuuriympäristöt RKY. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  6. Koskela, Anna. "Hvitträsk Vaimojen vaihto ja kummituksia". Tämä Matka. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  7. Jaakkola, Saana (16 November 2015). "Kalliomaalausten metsästys päättyi hautaan – Vitträsk-järven maisemissa". Live now dream later. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

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