Hvitträsk
Studio home in Kirkkonummi, Finland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hvitträsk is a mansion complex in Kirkkonummi, Finland, about 30 kilometers (19 mi) west of Helsinki. It was designed as a studio home by the members of the Finnish architecture firm Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen, later becoming the private residence of Eliel Saarinen. It operated as a museum until 2024, when it was closed due to budget cuts by Petteri Orpo's government affecting the Finnish Heritage Agency.[1]
The development was started when the plot was purchased by the company in 1901. The construction was mostly completed by 1903.[2][3][4][5] The house was named after Lake Vitträsk, beside which it was built. [H]vitträsk literally means White Lake. Today Hvitträsk is a museum open to the public. The red-roofed manor structure facing the lake is the main museum building, and the brownish structure separated on the other side by a yard is the cafeteria. There is also a smaller sauna down by the lake.[6]
In 1922 Lindgren's home in the north side partially burned down. Eliel Saarinen's son Eero Saarinen designed a new building in its place in 1929–33.[6][2][7]
Exterior
View of the lakeside
View of the museum building from the lakeside
Side of the museum, with the cafeteria visible on the right
The cafeteria
Museum seen from the cafeteria
Road from the opposite northeast side, with the cafeteria ahead
Cafeteria front, where the museum building would now be on the right
Courtyard structure
The gravesite of Eliel Saarinen, his wife Loja and Herman Geselius[8]
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Interior
Living Room
Dining Room
Stained glass Rival Suitors by Olga Gummerus-Ehrström, 1905
Library
Atelier
Géza Maróti's relief The Angel of Resurrection in the atelier
Playroom
- 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.
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