Join us for an opening celebration of Jul: Nordic Baltic Design at Scandinavia House with a launch party for the Issue 03 of Sälä Magazine.

Sälä is an independent magazine on Finnish design, published since 2025 by the Helsinki-based non-profit association Saelae. In Finnish, sälä means odds and ends, the miscellaneous things that gather on shelves and in drawers. The magazine approaches design with the same openness, from everyday objects to the people who make them. 

Each issue is built around a theme that looks at the field from a different angle. Much of the content comes through an open call, so emerging designers appear alongside established names. Sälä’s tone is curious and encouraging, and it treats design as something with real consequences for society. 

Issue 03, Nourishment, was published in August 2026. It explores the concrete and abstract ways design sustains our minds, bodies and environment, with contributions from Hanna Anonen, Antrei Hartikainen, Laura Väinölä and Nikari, among many others.  In the exhibition Jul: Nordic Baltic Design, the objects on Sälä’s table are a small, curated selection from the issue, each one featured on its pages. Issue 04, Nurture, follows in fall 2027. 

Sälä is published in English and made by Mimosa Tast (executive producer and design consultant), Amanda Sandell (editor-in-chief) and Peppi-Lotta Heinonen (art director). 

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