Kaarina Aho – Ceramics from Arabia

Kaarina Aho (born 1925 in Helsinki, Finland, died 1990) joined the Arabia factory’s Product Design Department in 1946 as an assistant to Kaj Franck. She had graduated from the Central School of Arts and Crafts as a model draughtsman but was not satisfied with her duties at Arabia, which involved work on decoration models and types for mass-pro­duced tableware. Her resignation, however, was not accepted, and the factory manage­ment sent her on a round of training periods in almost all of Arabia’s departments, from the laboratory to the glazing section.