Antti Nurmesniemi was a Finnish designer. His work includes enamel

Vitreous enamel

Vitreous enamel, also porcelain enamel in U.S. English, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C...

 coffee pots and furniture such as the Jakkara sauna

Sauna

A sauna is a small room or house designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these and auxiliary facilities....

 stool, as well as interior design

Interior design

Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...

 work. He has been referred to as the "Grand Old Man of Finnish Design", and he won the Lunning Prize

Lunning Prize

The Lunning Prize was instituted by Frederik Lunning, owner of the New York agency for Georg Jensen. The prize was awarded to eminent Scandinavian designers, two each year, from 1951 to 1970...

 in 1959. He is married to textile

Textile

A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...

 designer Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi.

Nurmesniemi was involved in the modernist design of the Palace Hotel

Palace Hotel

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 from 1951-1953 with Olli Borg and Olavi Hänninen

Olavi Hänninen

Olavi Hänninen was a Finnish designer. His modernist designs included tables and he worked on the Palace Hotel, Helsinki interior with Antti Nurmesniemi and Olli Borg. He designed a metal chair for the hotel's cafe.-References:...

.

Eero Aarnio

Eero Aarnio

Eero Aarnio is a Finnish interior designer, well known for his innovative furniture designs in the 1960s, notably his plastic and fibreglass chairs....

 worked for him for a short time, and they are credited together in at least one source for the Ball Chair

Ball Chair

The Ball Chair was designed by Finnish furniture designer Eero Aarnio in 1963. The Ball Chair is also known as the globe chair and is famous for its unconventional shape. It is considered a classic of industrial design...

 design in the 1960s. Mary Quant

Mary Quant

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 put the chair in her Bond Street

Bond Street

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 store known for mod fashions. Aarnio also came up with the Bubble Chair

Bubble Chair

The Bubble chair was designed by Eero Aarnio in 1968 in Finland. It is made of acrylic or steel frame and leather or polyurethane fabric cushions. It is distributed by Adelta. The chair is suspended from above leading to a floating or bubble-like sensation. It is considered an industrial design...

, while Nurmesniemi designed the steel and leather covered poly-foam Triennale chair in 1960; Tecta Möbel's F 10 fiberglass, rubber, aluminum and chrome plated steel chair in 1968; the chrome and fabric covered foam Tuoli chair sold by Cassina

Cassina

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in 1978; and the wicker and tubular steel D 35 ca. 1984

Nurmesniemi authored Antti Nurmesniemi: ajatuksia ja suunnitelmia (to reflect and to design) Kaupungin taidemuseo (Helsinki) 1992.