Month: June 2024

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Attending World Sauna Forum 2024

We recently attended the World Sauna Forum 2024, held on June 6th and 7th in Jyväskylä a great opportunity to meet  face-to-face with our partner companies and friends from Japan, Finland and many other countries, as well as to make new connections. We Monordi were particularly delighted to introduce our service and products to many attendees. We eould like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Sataman Viilu and Savutuvan Apaja for providing the venues, and to Sauna froum Finlland for ourganizing such a fantastic event. Monordi remains committed to being a bridge between Japan and Finland. Additionally, we warmly welcome individuals from other countries interested in Japanese market. Thank you for your continued support. 

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Monordi will once again be exhibiting at the World Sauna Forum 2024, in collaboration with our partners from both Japan and Finland.

Continuing from our previous participation, we are excited to announce that Monordi will once again be exhibiting at the World Sauna Forum 2024, in collaboration with our partners from both Japan and Finland.

As with last time, our core focus remains on being a bridge between Finland and Japan. This year, we are representing the Japanese companies below;

Moreover, this year we are thrilled to invite Finnish artist Pive Toivonen, whose sauna-themed art we are promoting, to our booth. By incorporating art, we aim to further strengthen the cultural connection between Japan and Finland. We invite everyone interested in the innovative and exciting collaboration of art and saunas to visit our booth!

We look forward to meeting new people and forging new connections at this event.

Top photo is from; https://worldsaunaforum.com/

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Pive Toivonen connects with more and more Japanese Nordic Fans through Her Art at Hankyu Umeda Nordic Fair 2024

Nordic fair

We at Monordi are proud to promote Finnish visual artist and illustrator Pive Toivonen, who participated as one of the Finnish artists at the “Hankyu Umeda Main Store Nordic Fair 2024” held in Osaka, Japan. With full support from Andfika, Pive herself stayed at the booth throughout the event, enjoying encounters with many Nordic art/design fans.

The Hankyu Umeda Nordic Fair 2024, held from May 22 to May 27, celebrated the theme “Finding Small Happiness in the Simple Finnish Lifestyle.” The six-day fair featured popular Finnish and other Nordic countries’ foods like cinanmon rolls and salmon soup, various shops selling Nordic goods and fashion accessories, and a variety of art and music workshops. Pive participated in a talk show about Finnish saunas and showcased her signature watercolor drawings. Impressively, dozens of copies of Pive’s sauna art book were sold during the event.

During her stay in Japan, Pive also visited various facilities such as Japanese saunas, onsen (hot springs) and sento which is Japanese public bathing place, creating numerous artworks and enriching her artistic activities. And also, Pive and her husband Markku enjoyed Japanese ’rice bran enzyme bath’ in “Nuka to Yuge” a bath and sauna facility in Kyoto. (The art what Pive drew there can be seen at the end of this article. )You can view other arts on various social media platforms, where she will also be updating with new pieces created in Japan. Don’t miss out—stay tuned for her latest works! (Links available here)

We also extend an invitation to sauna and sento facilities in Finland and Japan: would you like to display Pive’s original artwork at your establishment? If interested, please feel free to contact us at Monordi!

Official Website of Hankyu Umeda Nordic Fair 2024:
https://website.hankyu-dept.co.jp/honten/h/nordic/

Links to Pive’s Social Media: https://linktr.ee/pivetoivonen

Nuka to Yuge official website: https://nuka-yuge.com/