Erna Aaltonen & Howard Smith
Fiskars: I first encountered Erna Aaltonen’s ceramics—her relentless testing of a material’s limits, her experimentations with colour—at her home studio in the Finnish village of Fiskars. I was researching the work of her late partner, Howard Smith (1928–2021), an African American artist and designer who spent most of his life in Finland. Smith arrived in…
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