Hvitträsk was designed to be a studio home for the members of the Finnish architecture firm Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen

Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen

Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen was a Finnish architecture firm in Helsinki. The firm was formed in 1896 and consisted of Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren, and Eliel Saarinen. In 1905 Lindgren became head of the architecture school at Helsinki University of Technology and withdrew from the firm...

. It later became the private residence of Eliel Saarinen

Eliel Saarinen

Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century....

. It is located about 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) west of Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

 in Kirkkonummi

Kirkkonummi

Kirkkonummi is a municipality of inhabitants in southern Finland. The literal meaning of the words "Kirkkonummi" and "Kyrkslätt" in English is "church moor"....

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

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The design was developed and construction began during the year of 1902. The house was named after Lake Vitträsk, on which it was built. [H]vitträsk literally means White Lake.

Publications

• Moderne Bauformen 6, no. 4 (1907): 159–62;8, no. 8 (1909): 350, 353.
• Hemma och Ute 3, (August 1913): 210–14; 3 (September 1913): 234–5.
• American Architect and Architectural Review 124 (September 26, 1923): 19 pls.
• Arkkitehti nos. 11–12 (1943): 24.
• Architectural Review 139 (February 1966): 152–54.
• Space Design no. 133 (September 1975): 91–94
• Connaissance des Arts no. 238 (December 1971): 108–13, 192.
• New York Times 13 February 1966, VI, p.64.

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