Simo Heikkilä

Simo Heikkilä (born May 2, 1943)[1] is a Finnish designer and interior architect.

"[4] In 2009 Heikkilä invited a group of 21 international designer, including Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison, to reinterpret the Sami knife or leuku.

Each designer was sent an original knife made by a Sami craftsman and given the simple brief to make it better.

At the time Simo Heikkilä said of the project, "The leuku is a beautiful and functional object, pure in shape, well balanced and simply composed.

The results of the collaboration were exhibited in Finland and the Saint-Étienne Design Biennial in France, and published as a book.