Examples of her work are held in the collections of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Design Museum in Helsinki.

The Meronen family was forced to evacuate when the Russians invaded and seized the territory at the outbreak of World War II.

With their farm razed to the ground and unable to return to Karelia, the family built a new life in Virenoja, a village near Orimattila.

Their early married life was spent between Helsinki, Virenoja, and Lübeck in her husband's native Germany.

Constructed in undulating forms of expanded polyurethane foam with a glossy vinyl cover, it became one of Zanotta's cult classics.