Kimalainen- marquetry

Short video from workshop.

Metsälehti shoot a video in workshop spring 2025, cameraman Seppo Samuli.

Marquetry is tecnique where entire surface is covered with pieces of veneer, often using different woods, to form picture or ornament. In Kimalainen products finishing is made maily with Osmocolor.

Learn a bit more

You can get Kimalainen products

from some boutiques and shops, e.g.

  • You can buy tiny owls being busy in their gardens in coasters, matchboxracks and coffeefilter/ napkinholders in in Itua- shop in Logomo. Exact information how to get there You get easiest by calling there. Itua is lovely shop, open in Wednesdays day time. You can get bokashi things there,lots of information about it, seeds and gardening things and all kind of healthy life, green tees etc.
  • Tupapuoti Fiskars | Fiskarsintie 30
  • Craft museum of Finland, Jyväskylä | Kauppakatu 25
    • Check all the other shops and boutiques here

    Taking part in November and December 2025

  • In Old Great Square’s Christmas in Turku 22.-23.11., 29.-30.11., and 13.-14.12. 2025, each day 11am-5pm.
  • Christmas Market in Architecture & Design Museum 7.12 in Helsinki.
    • In December these are also worth to check:

    Gallery

    Many kind of products and designs have been made since 2004 when Kimalainen got into business.

    See some of the old ones here. Most recent projects are shown in and