Kaipiainen worked as a designer for Arabia over fifty years.

[2] As a child he was Kaipiainen suffered from Polio and was consequently unable to use a pottery wheel.

[3] Kaipiainen was nicknamed “the king of decorators”,[4] for his nostalgic, romantic and highly decorative ceramic designs, at a time when minimalism was the prevailing trend in Finnish ceramics.

He is known for repeatedly using the same signature nature inspired motifs, such as violets and curlews.

His most famous designs were made at the Arabia ceramics factory.