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Saara Hopea was born in 1925 in Helsinki, Finland. She is a designer and interior architect who has been active in the field since the 1950s. She is best known for her furniture designs, which are characterized by their simple, functional, and modern style. Hopea studied at the Institute of Industrial Arts in Helsinki, graduating in 1952. She then worked as a designer for the furniture company Artek, where she designed several iconic pieces, including the Siena chair and the Stool 60. She also designed furniture for the Finnish company Asko, and her designs have been featured in several exhibitions. Hopea has received numerous awards for her work, including the Pro Finlandia Medal in 1975 and the Prince Eugen Medal in 1984. She was also inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2002. Hopea is currently retired and lives in Helsinki. Her net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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1997

After she married Untracht the couple moved to New York and she started to work in enamel. "By overfiring transparent enamels on copper, she was able to achieve results that gave the work a spontaneous, painterly look with intense colors and great depth.", and she sold many pieces through exclusive shops. The couple traveled in Nepal and India for four years, studying, photographing and collecting local metalwork and jewellery; Untracht published his Traditional Jewelry of India in 1997. They returned to Porvoo in 1967, and Hopea's work thereafter included silversmithing, textile design, and enamelling. Her jewellery has been described as "a tranquil contemporary statement of the Scandinavian esthetic."

1988

In 1988 her husband published Saara Hopea-Untracht. Life and Work.

1982

She married Oppi Untracht, an American metalsmith, writer and educator, in 1960, after meeting him when he visited Finland in 1954. She died in Porvoo on 25 June 1982.

1946

Hopea worked in furniture design from 1946 to 1948 and then joined metalsmith Paavo Tynell's company from 1948 to 1952. She then joined Nuutajärvi glassworks [fi] where she designed glassware, and her work "epitomized the minimalist ideal of 1950s Finnish style, which had been influenced by the Bauhaus design philosophy." After her father died in 1948 she began to design silver for his shop in Porvoo.

1925

Saara Elisabet Hopea-Untracht (1925 –1984) was a Finnish designer whose work included glassware and jewellery.

Hopea was born on 26 August 1925 in Porvoo, Uusimaa, Finland. She was the granddaughter of goldsmith Samuel Mika Westerlund, her mother was a talented craftswoman, and her father Ossian Hopea was manager of the Westerlund goldsmiths business. She studied from 1943 to 1946 at the Central School of Industrial Design or School of Applied Arts, now part of Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, in Helsinki, and gained a degree in interior design.

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