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We did not talk much about the efforts that they had invested in the renovation,
but it included, for example, contracting for the design and manufacturing
of several cupboards and hunting for materials, such as kitchen floor tiles, with
which Hannele is very pleased.
H: we thought for a long time what this here could be. There was a
wooden floor underneath but it was in such bad condition that it
couldn’t be used. Then there was a parquet floor in the living room
and we couldn’t get that same parquet, and the parquet man said that
we shouldn’t put a parquet in a kitchen and he was quite certainly correct,
that, when you get water damage you have to tear everything up.
This is that kind of tile that’s used (pause) it’s made of stone, ground,
and it’s used in hospitals and it comes in varying degrees of what it
can withstand, but this is very easy to take care of and in my opinion
nice, and it came in really good colours which you could choose from
and somehow it just felt that it is, that it fits just right. (Hannele 04
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In addition, Hannele told me that she had hired workers to do the repair work
for some of the products every now and then and occasionally tuned the pieces
of furniture on her own. For example, she had ordered new slippers for their
Jacobsen chairs, had removed the paint from the second-hand Aalto table, had
crafted together some table lamps and had upholstered one of her favourite
items, a small sofa, several times, as her interior decoration taste had changed
(P 156–158). The following quote, in which Hannele was talking about the small
sofa, is a nice example of a quite detailed biography of a much liked object:
H: well this sofa could be an example, of a piece of furniture, which is,
which has a history. It is from my husband’s home and its original
canvas was dark blue, quite rough, ugly, a strong blue. He always took
a nap in it in his own home while watching TV. Well, these shapes
spoke to me, I thought it was small and slender and rather nice looking
and then, when his parents both died, there was bit of sharing
around of furniture, so this came to us. Then I upholstered it with this
canvas here at that point [floral canvas under the current white], I
had a kind of British interior-decorating boom going on. And when
it was over, this cover was sewn over it. And it is one of these, this
whole sofa follows us from one place to another, always finding some
spot because it is so small. And somehow funny looking. And then