About me — MINNAINRE

About me.

I’m a spacial designer based in Ostrobothnia, Finland. After studies in spacial design at Swedish Polytechnic in Nykarleby and HDK Academy of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, I started my interior business Minna Inre. I’m mainly working with interior planning and organisation services of private and public spaces. In my work function and usability is combined with atmosphere and aesthetics.

I want to contribute to human wellbeing by focusing on the spaces where we spend most of our time - at home and at the workplace. When we feel at ease in these spaces we thrive and feel well. Outer order creates inner calm. I focus on human physical and mental needs and work intuitively with creating atmosphere and energy flow within spaces. By recommending natural material and reuse where ever possible, I want to contribute to sustainable home and working environments.

In addition to interior design I also work with set design and spacial installations. Creating temporary installations is an interesting contrast to long-term spaces, as they allow more artistic freedom. The spaces come alive during human interaction, and even if they are temporary the experience of them lives on in our memories.

Minna

My work process.

Culture means cultivating and the creative process is very much like the process of farming. To sow a seed - to receive an idea. To allow it to germinate. In the creative process I work very intuitively.

Every space begins with a picture in my mind. Unclear and faint at first, sharpening with time. I listen within, sorting thoughts and ideas until the space appears before my eyes. After this the space is imprinted in my mind. I live with it, dwell in it and rearrange it.

I experience contentment as I physically create the spaces. While the body is working the thoughts can move freely. Spending time in spaces is a way of familiarizing with them, experience their dimensions, atmosphere and character. Just like getting to know a person, it takes some time to reach under the surface of a space.