Hvitträsk was designed to be a studio home for the members of
Gesellius, Lindgren, and SaarinenGesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen is a modern Finnish architecture firm in Helsinki. The firm was formed in 1896 and consisted of Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren, and Eliel Saarinen. In 1905 Lindgren became head of the architecture school at Helsinki University of Technology and withdrew from the...
. It later became the private residence of
Eliel SaarinenGottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century....
. It is located about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from
HelsinkiHelsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it the most populous municipality in Finland by a wide margin...
in
KirkkonummiKirkkonummi is a municipality of inhabitants in southern Finland. The literal meaning of the words "Kirkkonummi" and "Kyrkslätt" in English is "church moor"....
,
FinlandFinland , officially the Republic of Finland
, is a Nordic country and democracy situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland...
. The design was developed and construction began during the year of 1902. The house was named after Lake Vitträsk, on which it was built. The word
Hvitträsk means
White Marsh.
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Hvitträsk was designed to be a studio home for the members of
Gesellius, Lindgren, and SaarinenGesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen is a modern Finnish architecture firm in Helsinki. The firm was formed in 1896 and consisted of Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren, and Eliel Saarinen. In 1905 Lindgren became head of the architecture school at Helsinki University of Technology and withdrew from the...
. It later became the private residence of
Eliel SaarinenGottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century....
. It is located about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from
HelsinkiHelsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it the most populous municipality in Finland by a wide margin...
in
KirkkonummiKirkkonummi is a municipality of inhabitants in southern Finland. The literal meaning of the words "Kirkkonummi" and "Kyrkslätt" in English is "church moor"....
,
FinlandFinland , officially the Republic of Finland
, is a Nordic country and democracy situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland...
. The design was developed and construction began during the year of 1902. The house was named after Lake Vitträsk, on which it was built. The word
Hvitträsk means
White Marsh.
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.