Scissors with orange handles?? Who ever thought of that? But indeed, there they were; and I remember looking with wide-eyed wonder at this amazing object that my Dad got back from his first visit to the USA. I gingerly touched those glossy orange handles – amazed, enchanted, bewildered – and a tad anxious lest my soiled hands would smudge them! I was barely eight years old that time. Later in life, the same orange-handled scissors were in my mind’s eye, as I figured how a little detail could change an everyday item into a masterpiece. The iconic ‘Fiskars Scissors’ were my introduction to ‘product design’ – and maybe even to the very concept of ‘design’!
A brand synonymous with design and innovation, the group went a step further with the Fiskars Pavilion, in Arabianranta, Helsinki. To create the pavilion, Fiskars invited several leading design firms to participate in a competition for the best idea. Pentagon Design, one of Finland’s leading design studios indeed came up with a winner. Pentagon’s idea was to use the space as an opportunity to display some of the Fiskars brands in a totally new way, and create a sensory experience of the Fiskars brand! The Pavilion, which was opened to public in May 2013, has thus developed as a uniquely designed space, offering a memorable experience as the entrance to the company’s headquarters!
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