Finnish Art

You Know More Finnish Than You Think

Danny L. Bate | 3rd August 2025

Despite its apparent strangeness to speakers of Indo-European languages, there are many similar words in Finnish. Hamppu, haukka, kakku, leipä and valas resemble hemp, hawk, cake, loaf and whale respectively. The English same and the Finnish sama are essentially the same. That most Finnish of words, sauna, may have derived from a Proto-Germanic word that has given English stack (2,200 words)

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100 Years Of Art Deco

Matt Alagiah | Observer | 31st July 2025

It has been 100 years since the Paris Expo which gave Art Deco its name. The French, keen to reassert their role as arbiters of taste, wanted to disallow Le Corbusier’s pavilion for being too “austere” and “stark”. Le Corbusier, for his part, was dismissive of Art Deco: “decorative art is the final twitch of the old manual mode. Our pavilion will contain only standard things created by industry and mass-produced” (1,400 words)