DESIGNERS

Jouni Leino

My father worked as an architect. As a child I always considered his job boring, just sitting and drawing. When my art teacher at school urged me to apply to art and design university, I got annoyed. (I was afraid of artistic looking girls.) My mother paid the travel costs to the exam. I reluctantly left. So strange how people end up doing what they do!

Later I have been asked to run a design professorship, perform in interior design program in television and act as an external examiner in a university abroad. I have received few international awards for my designs as well. So, thanks all you nice people!

Designing Nemo has been a voyage. In the beginning there was merely the obsession for trapezoids and triangles. Interior-Agents forced me to transform this mind-game into usable furniture. Through failures and successes we have now reached a point when we can proudly launch the collection.