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H: Now these are something I have an awful lot of, and now we’ve got
more of them, Finnish buttermilk bowls and
HP: where do they come from?
H: well we just got some more from my mother’s house. So now we’ve
got this rice-grain porcelain and here are those buttermilk bowls. And
then I have, although I don’t need them myself, I have kept them for
my children so that they’ll have them at the point when they have
room. I’d be happy to give quite a lot of these things to them, but
unfortunately they don’t have room for them. So I’m just storing them
here, for example these Kilta cups from my husband’s home. (Hannele
04 273-281)
Hannele’s explained her thinking by giving several examples of times when she
had helped her children in this way, either with her small collection of vintage
clothes or with the products often given to journalists in the launch events:
H: at press events they give you something (pause) or the object, for
example, if it’s something affordable, for example, if Iittala is launching
a new frying-pan, they give a pan and if they are launching new
tealights, then we get tealights. And then of course we get things that
I don’t necessarily need myself, and then I’ll save it in its packaging
and I’ll forward it on. Or if one of the children says that now I need a
present for someone, do you have anything in the cupboard, then we’ll
see if there’s anything suitable. So in actual fact they are rather nice,
practical and fun and beautiful and so on but in a sense I am saving
them, that if I don’t particularly need them, I’m not going to unpack
and use them just for that the sake of it, so I store them in the sort of
gift stash. (Hannele 05 340-349)
Of the others, Ilmari (who apparently keeps everything anyone gives him or
brings to the apartment), Kalle & Emma (who were collecting, storing and
fixing items in case somebody would need them – Kalle referred to their apartment
as a recycling centre), Olavi (who was displaying in the apartment products
that were waiting for their place in his other renovation projects), the
Ylinen family (who had inherited most of their furniture), and Liisa (who
explicitly mentioned having taken a bookcase so that it would “stay in the family”
and who stored all of the gifts that she received) were all running their own
museums within their apartments.
Running a museum covers practices of curating, storing and displaying stuff