2017
Flower vase Trees / Maljakkopuut
Design: COMPANY (Aamu Song & Johan Olin)
Client: Espoo Hospital / EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Manufacturer: Lasisirkus & Selki-Asema
Location: Espoo Hospital
Material: Mouth-blown glass, steel, wood
Assisting designers: Topi Mäkinen, Ekaterina Afanasyeva (renderings)

Maljakkopuu is a commissioned art work for a new hospital in the city of Espoo. The design is a set of 18 steel trees each holding 21 mouth-blown glass flower vases. The trees are located by the entrances of each of the 18 wards of the hospital. There the visitors can pick up a vase on their way to patient rooms. The art work was comissioned by EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art. 



Maljakkopuu / Flower vase Tree. Photo: Yehia Eweis.



Maljakkopuu / Flower vase Tree. Espoo Hospital, Finland.



COMPANY Johan Olin & Aamu Song and Flower vase Tree.






01.2017. A tree waiting for flower vases.



Flower Tree Vase in use in patient room .Photo: Yehia Eweis.



Flower Vases come in three sizes and colours. Photo: Yehia Eweis.



04.2016. First edition of Flower vases at COMPANY X SALAKAUPPA.



04.2016. Testing day of Maljakkopuu (Flower Vase Tree) on site at Espoo Hospital.



04.2016. Vase and mold in Nuutajärvi, Finland.



02.2016. Making of the Flower Vase Trees at Selki-Asema in Vihti, Finland. A bunch of steel rods fan out to make branches. Each branch ending in a wooden stem and a knob. Wood ends make the use of the trees (taking and placing of vases) silent.



12.2015. Rendered Flower Vase Trees by Topi Mäkinen. The tips of each branch of this steel rod tree are to be made of birch. Wood will make soft contact with the glass vases.



11.2015. Johan and Topi finding the final shape of the Flower Vase Tree.


10.2015. First protos of vases.



09.2015. Making of the first set of glass vases in Nuutajärvi. The amazing Johannes and Alma of Lasisirkus at work.



08.2015. Johan in the search of the perfect shape of the vase.



Colour studies. Painting by Aamu Song.





Our design is a set of 18 steel trees that each holds 21 mouth-blown glass flower vases. The trees are located by the entrances of each of the 18 wards of the hospital. There the visitors can pick up a vase on their way to patient rooms.

12.2014. We are commissioned to create an art work work for a new hospital in the city of Espoo. The task is to come up with a solution that provides art for each ward and for the total of 450 patient rooms of the hospital. We tackle an existing problem –  the lack of flower vases in hospitals – and draft a plan to design custom flower vases. The vases are stored in sculpturous holders at the entrance of each of the ward.
The work was comissioned by EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art who manages the art for the Espoo Hospital.