Salme Setälä (from 1919–1930 Cornér; 18 January 1894, Helsinki — 6 October 1980, Helsinki) was a

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architect and writer. She graduated from the

Helsinki University of Technology Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; fi, Teknillinen korkeakoulu; sv, Tekniska högskolan) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the metropolitan area of Greater Helsinki. The university was founded in ...

in 1917. She worked in a number of architecture offices. In the early 1950s she made several study trips in Europe. After that she was hired in the government office for

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. She planned the land use for over 30 areas in Finland. Setälä's main interest was interior design and furniture. She also wrote books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her parents were

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and

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, and she was of

Baltic German Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined ...

descent through her maternal grandfather

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. From 1919–1930 she was married to the journalist Frithiof Cornér, and artist was their daughter.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Setälä, Salme 1894 births 1980 deaths Architects from Helsinki 20th-century Finnish architects Finnish furniture designers Writers from Helsinki Aalto University alumni Finnish people of Baltic German descent