Designer Ronan Bouroullec moves between mediums, materials and scales with ease. To each new project he brings a philosophy of thoughtful, empathetic design. We asked Ronan – in conversation with writer Laura Houseley – how the Maasto family of furniture for Vaarnii reflects his design ethos, and how he got away with introducing plywood to the Vaarnii range.

The origin story Vaarnii’s Hans lighting series was first designed in the 1960s. Its story is one of popularity followed by obscurity. Ever since V...

British designer John Tree likes singular things: Singular materials and singular manufacturing processes especially. Designing a new table light f...

Vaarnii returns to 3daysofdesign this June with a celebratory presentation of the Maasto range by Ronan Bouroullec—marking the completion of the Ma...

  Vaarnii returns to 3daysofdesign with its collection of brutal Finnish furniture and a story of pine evolution.   Solid pine, finest pine vene...

Network of Design (NOD) launched in 2020 to bring carefully selected Nordic design to every corner of the world. Today, NOD is proud to announce our investment in Vaarnii, a furniture company that makes brutally sophisticated objects from a single raw material; Finnish pine. All made by local craftspeople and workshops in Finland.