Salme Setälä (left), Helvi Erjakka, Eeva Joenpelto and Sylvi Kekkonen in 1962

Salme Setälä (from 1919–1930 Cornér; 18 January 1894, Helsinki — 6 October 1980, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and writer. She graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1917. She worked in a number of architecture offices. In the early 1950s she made several study trips in Europe. After that she was hired in the government office for land-use planning. She planned the land use for over 30 areas in Finland.[1]

Setälä's main interest was interior design and furniture. She also wrote books, both fiction and non-fiction.[1] Her parents were Eemil Nestor Setälä and Helmi Krohn, and she was of Baltic German descent through her maternal grandfather Julius Krohn.[2][3] From 1919–1930 she was married to the journalist Frithiof Cornér, and artist Helmiriitta Honkanen was their daughter.

References

  1. 1 2 "Salme Setälä". Museum of Architecture (in Finnish). Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Salme Setälä". Kirjasampo (in Finnish). Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  3. ↑ George C. Schoolfield, ed. (1998). A History of Finland's Literature. Volume 4 of History of Scandinavian literatures. U of Nebraska Press. p. 733. ISBN 9780803241893.
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