{"id":65574,"date":"2026-09-18T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?p=65574"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:54:12","slug":"design-stories-publishes-new-feature-on-the-nordic-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/design-stories-publishes-new-feature-on-the-nordic-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Stories Publishes New Feature on the Nordic House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Petri Burtsoff writes about the history of the Nordic House in a new piece for\u00a0Finnish Design Shop\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Design Stories.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Built in 1968 to strengthen ties between Iceland and the rest of the Nordic region, the building is described as &#8220;one of Alvar Aalto&#8217;s most overlooked and politically charged works.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The piece also highlights the collection of custom Aalto furniture and lighting made exclusively for the building, such as the auditorium chairs and the brass lamps built into the reading tables. Since 2004, the Nordic House has been a protected heritage site, a status that has helped preserve all original details for visitors to see today. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Read the full story at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finnishdesignshop.com\/en\/design-stories\/architecture\/the-nordic-house-alvar-aaltos-quiet-masterpiece-in-reykjavik\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Design Stories<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, and come visit us to experience the building yourself!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-65575 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d3d45324d274b767095aee35bf16117f2cb92ab5-1000x1333-1-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"Reading tables with brass lamps, in the Nordic House library\" width=\"308\" height=\"411\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d3d45324d274b767095aee35bf16117f2cb92ab5-1000x1333-1-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d3d45324d274b767095aee35bf16117f2cb92ab5-1000x1333-1-915x1220.jpg 915w, https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d3d45324d274b767095aee35bf16117f2cb92ab5-1000x1333-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d3d45324d274b767095aee35bf16117f2cb92ab5-1000x1333-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d3d45324d274b767095aee35bf16117f2cb92ab5-1000x1333-1.jpg 1320w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 308px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 308\/411;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petri Burtsoff writes about the history of the Nordic House in a new piece for\u00a0Finnish Design Shop\u2019s\u00a0Design Stories.\u00a0Built in 1968 to strengthen ties between Iceland and the rest of the Nordic region, the building is described as &#8220;one of Alvar Aalto&#8217;s most overlooked and politically charged works.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The piece also highlights the collection of custom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":65578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}