Elli Ruuth
Elli Ruuth (1893 – 1975) was a Finnish furniture architect. She was active in 1924 – 1952.
Elli Ruuth
- Name
- Elli Ruuth
- Born
- 1893
- Died
- 1975
- Nationality
- Finland
- Occupation
- architect
- Languages
- Finnish
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Elli Ruuth (1893 – 1975) was a Finnish furniture architect. She was active in 1924 – 1952.
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Elli Ruuth was an architect; nationality: Finland. Elli Ruuth was born in 1893. Elli Ruuth died in 1975. The language is Finnish.
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• Name — Elli Ruuth • Born — 1893 • Died — 1975 • Significant Buildings — Finnish embassy in Moscow
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Ruuth designed furniture for various state and municipal buildings. According to Architecta, the Finnish association of women architects, her "most brilliant" works were the interiors of the Finnish embassy in Moscow and Villa Baumgartner in Helsinki.
Finnish Association of Women Architects
Finnish Association of Women Architects
In 1919, Elli Ruuth together with Elsa Arokallio, Elsi Borg, Salme Setälä, Eva Kuhlefeld and Aili-Salli Ahde-Kjäldman, was part of the founding group of the Tumstocken association and then the Finnish Association of Women Architects.
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- 1.Historia. Architecta.
- 2.Saarikangas, Kirsi. Model houses for model families : gender, ideology and the modern dwelling: the type-planned houses of the 1940s in Finland. Suomen Historiallinen Seura. 45. 1993. 951-8915-65-2.
- 3.Viipurin käskynhaltijan palatsista Heinolan kautta Kuopioon. Juristiuutiset. 2014-01-07.
- 4.J. S. Sirén. Arkkitehtuurimuseo.
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